Civil Engineering
GATE CE discipline:civil-and-environmental-engineering PYQs
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The coefficient of average rolling friction of a road is
and its grade is +G%. If the grade of this road is doubled, what will be the percentage change in the braking distance (for the design vehicle to come to a stop) measured along the horizontal (assume all other parameters are kept unchanged)?Your answerChoose one option.
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Structural failures considered in the mechanistic method of bituminous pavement design are
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An isolated concrete pavement slab of length
is resting on a frictionless base. The temperature of the top and bottom fibre of the slab are
and
, respectively. Given: the coefficient of thermal expansion =
and the elastic modulus =
. Assuming
and the unit weight of concrete as zero, the maximum thermal stress is calculated asYour answerChoose one option.
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A solid sphere of radius,
, and made of material with density,
, is moving through the atmosphere (constant pressure,
) with a velocity,
. The net force ONLY due to atmospheric pressure (
) acting on the sphere at any time,
, isYour answerChoose one option.
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In a rectangular channel, the ratio of the velocity head to the flow depth for critical flow condition, is
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The velocity field in a flow system is given by
. The acceleration of the fluid at (1, 1, 2) isYour answerChoose one option.
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If the path of an irrigation canal is below the bed level of a natural stream, the type of cross-drainage structure provided is
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An inflow hydrograph is routed through a reservoir to produce an outflow hydrograph. The peak flow of the inflow hydrograph is
and the time of occurrence of the peak is
. The peak flow of the outflow hydrograph is
and the time of occurrence of the peak is
. Which one of the following statements is correct?Your answerChoose one option.
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A catchment may be idealised as a rectangle. There are three rain gauges located inside the catchment at arbitrary locations. The average precipitation over the catchment is estimated by two methods: (i) Arithmetic mean (
), and (ii) Thiessen polygon (
). Which one of the following statements is correct?Your answerChoose one option.
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An earthen dam of height
is made of cohesive soil whose cohesion and unit weight are
and
, respectively. If the factor of safety against cohesion is
, the Taylor’s stability number (
) isYour answerChoose one option.
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