Civil Engineering
GATE CE discipline:civil-and-environmental-engineering PYQs
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Question 11
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The width of a square footing and the diameter of a circular footing are equal. If both the footings are placed on the surface of sandy soil, the ratio of the ultimate bearing capacity of circular footing to that of square footing will be
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The clay mineral, whose structural units are held together by potassium bond is
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Bernoulli’s equation is applicable for
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Dupit’s assumptions are valid for
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There are 20,000 vehicles operating in a city with an average annual travel of 12,000 km per vehicle. The NOx emission rate is 2.0 g/km per vehicle. The total annual release of NOx will be
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For a given discharge in an open channel, there are two depths which have the same specific energy. These two depths are known as
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A bitumen sample has been graded as VG30 as per IS : 73-2013. The ‘30’ in the grade means that
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As per IS 10500:2012, for drinking water in the absence of alternate source of water, the permissible limits for chloride and sulfate, in mg/L, respectively are
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The speed-density relationship for a road section is shown in the figure.

The shape of the flow-density relationship is
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In the figures, Group I represents the atmospheric temperature profiles (P, Q, R and S) and Group II represents dispersion of pollutants from a smoke stack (1, 2, 3 and 4). In the figures of Group I, the dashed line represents the dry adiabatic lapse rate, where the horizontal axis represents temperature and the vertical axis represents the altitude.

The correct match is
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