BARC CE: Full Syllabus Test-7 for ESE & GATE CE Exams

Question 1

Three new roads A, B and C are planned in a district. The data for these roads are given below:

Number of villages with population

The order of priority for these roads should be?

Question 2

The staff reading taken at a distance of 1050m from the instrument is 1.765m. What will be the correction in the reading due to atmospheric refraction?

Question 3

The actual velocity for flow in a soil deposit of porosity 0.33 is 1.39 mm/sec . The coefficient of hydraulic conductivity is 4.58 cm/s. Determine the coefficient of percolation.

Question 4

Find the moment required at C for unit rotation at D. (CB can be assumed as rigid).

Question 5

A thin-walled long cylindrical tank of inside radius r is subjected simultaneously to internal gas pressure p and axial compressive force Fat its ends. In order to produce ‘pure shear’ state of stress in the wall of the cylinder, F should be equal to

Question 6

Lacey’s scour depth for a stream carrying a discharge of 1 cumec per meter width is 1.5 What will be the scour depth if discharge changes to 18 cumecs per meter width. Assume silt factor is 0.92

Question 7

A square footing of 2.2 m x 2.2 m size has been founded at 1.4 m below the ground level in a cohesion soil having a bulk density of 1.9 t/m³ and an unconfined compressive strength of 6.2 t/m². The safe bearing capacity of the footing for a F.O.S. of 2.5 by Skempton’s theory is

Question 8

Water flows in a 2 cm diameter pipe. Calculate the largest discharge for which flow will be definitely laminar.

Question 9

A town of 2 lakh population is getting water at the rate of 150 litres per capita per day from a river. If the pumps are working for 12 hours a day to supply full day demand then the maximum capacity of draft required is

Question 10

The section modulus of a slender section is 800 × 10³ mm³. Find the factored moment carrying capacity of the section. Use Fe410 grade steel.

Question 11

The fineness modulus of fine aggregate is 2.58 and for coarse aggregate is 7.92 and the desired fineness modules of mixed aggregate is 6.24. What is the amount of fine aggregate to be mixed with one part of coarse aggregate.

Question 12

A vehicle was stopped in 3 seconds by fully jamming the brakes. The skid marks measured 11.2 m. The average skid resistance coefficient will be

Question 13

A curve of radius 520 m is to be set but the first tangent point is not accessible. Two points A and B are taken on either side of obstacle on the backward tangent. C is taken on the side of curve such that AC and BC are perpendicular to each other. The distance AC and BC are measured to be 45 m and 60 m respectively and IB is measured to be 254 m, where I is point of intersection. If the chainage of A is 3245 m, calculate the chainage of T₁. Deflection angle of the curve is 60˚.

Question 14

A circular flexible footing having diameter 3 m in plan, transmits a pressure of 180 kN/m² on a cohesive soil having E = 6 x 10⁴ kN/m² and μ = 0.50. The immediate settlement of the footing at the centre would be _______ mm.
[Take influence value = 0.85]

Question 15

If a concentrated load acting at the mid-span of a fixed beam of uniform section produces fixed end moments of 100 kNm, then the same load spread uniformly over the entire span will produce fixed end moments of ______ kNm.

Question 16

A steel I-beam has over all depth 30 cm. If the bending stress developed at top and bottom of the beam are 120 MPa and 30 MPa, then the depth of neutral axis from the top of the beam will be _________ cm.

Question 17

The consumptive use of water for a crop during a particular stage of growth is 3.0 mm/day. The maximum depth of available water in the root zone is 90 mm.Irrigation is required when the amount of available water is 40% of the maximum available water in the root zone.

Frequency of irrigation should be -

Question 18

A soil sampler has outer and inner radii of 35 mm and 30 mm, respectively. The area ratio of the sampler is

Question 19

Find the circulation around closed curve defined by y = 1, x = 2, y = 4 and x = 4 when the velocity field is given by (16y – 8x)

+ (8y – 7x)

Question 20

In an industry, 0.6 ML of oil fuel is being consumed per month. For every 1 ML of oil fuel consumption per year SO₂ emission rate is 55t/y. Minimum chimney height should be?

Question 21

The slope of a roof truss is 30° (access is not provided except maintenance), the imposed laod on the roof truss taken as ______ N/m².

Question 22

Seasoning of timber for use in construction is done essentially to

Question 23

What is the length of transition curve and extra width of pavement required on a horizontal curve of radius 275 m of a 2-lane highway passing through rolling terrain for a design speed of 68 km/hr? [Take the length of wheel base of 6.1 m.]

Question 24

The following readings were obtained when an area was measured by a planimeter the tracing arm being set to the neutral scale. The initials and final readings were 2.268 and 4.582. the zero of disc passed the index marks once in the clockwise direction. The anchor point was inside the figure with the value of the constant C of the instrument = 26.43 the area will be-

Question 25

A vane, 12 cm long and 8 cm in diameter, was pressed into a soft clay at the bottom of a bore hole. Torque was applied and the value at failure was 45 Nm. Find the shear strength (in kN/m²) of the clay on a horizontal plane.Assume that both top and bottom shear the soil.

Question 26

In the plane truss shown below, the number of members having zero force is ___________.

Question 27

A stiff bar is hanged with the help of three vertical rods. The central rod is made up of steel having diameter and length of 25 mm and 10 m respectively while that of two outer rods are made of copper having diameter and length of 15 mm and 15 m respectively. If two loads each of 100 kN are suspended from the ends of stiff bar, then the stress developed in the central rod will be _________ N/mm².
[Take E_s/E_c = 3]

Question 28

An elementary gravity dam is constructed of concrete having density of 24380 N/m³. The limiting weight of a low dam without considering uplift was found to be no and with consideration of full uplift it was h₁. The ratio of h₁ to the ho is

Question 29

A building has to be supported on raft of 15m * 20m. The subsoil is clay which has unconfined compressive strength of 18 kN/m². The gross pressure on soil due to weight of building and live loads is 150 kN/m². The depth of foundation for a factor of safety of 3 against shear is . γ= 18 kN/m²

Question 30

Which of the following lead to greater energy dissipation in turbulent flow

I. Larger eddy size

II. More viscosity of fluid

Question 31

The following data pertain to a sewage sample

1) Initial D₀ = 12 mg/ℓ

2) Final D₀ = 3 mg/ℓ

3) Dilution ratio 1 : 100

The BOD₅ of the given sample will be

Question 32

Consider the fillet welded joint shown in the fig. The welded surfaces meet at 60° - 90° (angle between fusion faces). The weld size is 8 mm and permissible stress in the weld is 110 MPa. What is the safe load ‘P’ that can be transmitted by this welded joint, considering weld failure only?

Question 33

Gypsum is typically added in cement to