Civil Engineering
2026 · Paper 1
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Question 16
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Two reservoirs having different water levels are connected by two long parallel pipelines of same length and same material but having diameters of 600 mm and 400 mm. Using Darcy-Weisbach equation, the ratio of flowrate of water in the bigger diameter pipe to that in the smaller diameter pipe is
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An irrigation canal is to be designed to deliver 10 cumec to meet the peak demand of 750 hectare of croped area. The estimated canal losses are 50 % of the head discharge. The duty (in hectare/cumec) on capacity of this canal is
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The name of a person in Column 1 is to be matched with the test mentioned in Column 2.
Column 1 | Column 2
(I) Menard | (P) Dilatometer test
(II) Marchetti | (Q) Pressuremeter test
(III) Casagrande | (R) Compaction test
(IV) Proctor | (S) Liquid limit test
Option giving the CORRECT match between Column 1 and Column 2 is:
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