BARC CE: Full Syllabus Test-12 for ESE & GATE CE Exams

Question 1

A cylinder container having diameter 39 cm and length 5 m has water upto height 3m. the maximum angular velocity upto which water will not spill out -

Question 2

A triangular DRH due to a 6-h storm in a catchment has a time base of 100 hour and peak flow of 80 m³/s. the catchment area is 180 km². 6-h unit hydrograph of this catchment will have a peak flow of _____ m³/s.

Question 3

A single vertical friction pile of diameter 500 mm and length 20 m is subjected to a vertical compressive load. The pile is embedded in a homogeneous sandy stratum where: angle of internal friction is =30 °, dry unit weight (ϒ_d)= 20 kN/m³ and angle of wall friction is 2φ/3. Considering the coefficient of lateral earth pressure (K)=2.7 and the bearing capacity factor (Nq)=25, the ultimate bearing capacity of the pile (in kN) is________

Question 4

12 m³/sec of water is diverted to a 31 hectare field for 5 hours. Soil probing after irrigation showed that 0.4 m of water had been stared in the root zone. water application efficiency in this case would be -

Question 5

Which of the in gradient of cement is termed as “Cancer of cement”

Question 6

A water treatment plant, having discharge 2 m³/sec, has 22 filters to treatment the water. Each filter is having 60 m² are, but due to back washing activity, 4 filters are non-operational. The hydraulic loading rate will be _____ m³/m².day

Question 7

The effective length of a column having length 3.75m as per IS 800-2007 when one end of the column is restrained against translation and rotation and other end is restrained against translation is

Question 8

The width and overall depth of a simply supported beam are 250 mm and 600 mm respectively, with an effective cover of 50 mm. The effective span is 8m. the beam is reinforced with 6-18 on the tension side. Determine the permissible value of the service load that can be imposed on this beam. Take M25 grade concrete and Fe 500 steel.

Question 9

A thick cylinder is subjected to an internal pressure of 60 MPa. If the hoop stress on the outer surface is 150 MPa, then the hoop stress on the internal surface is

Question 10

An observer travelling at constant speed of 70 kmph with the traffic stream over 5 km stretch is passed by 17 vehicles more than what he passed. When the observer travels against the stream at the same speed the number of vehicles he meets is 303. The flow of the traffic stream is -

Question 11

If the three angles of a triangle each have a standard error of ± 4.6’’, what is the total error in the triangle -

Question 12

Consider the following statements regarding laminar flow:

i. Viscous force between the different layers equals to zero

ii. Pressure gradient in the flow direction is equal to shear-gradient with respect to the direction perpendicular to flow direction.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Question 13

For siting a rain gauge which of the following considerations are important

Question 14

Consider a square-shaped area ABCD on the ground with its Centre at M as shown in the figure. Four concentrated vertical load of P=5000 kN are applied on this area, at each corner.

The vertical stress increment (in kPa, up to one decimal place) due to these loads according to the Boussinesq's equation, at a point 5 m right below M, is_____

Question 15

A lined irrigation canal with trapezoidal cross-section has 4 m bed width. 2.34 m depth and 1.5H : 1V side slope. Longitudinal bed slope of the canal is 1 in 1000 and manning’s n = 0.016. what is the maximum carrying capacity of the canal. What area of land in hectares the canal can irrigate if the crop has 130 mm field irrigation requirement in a crop period 10 days.

Question 16

Which of the following is a superplasticizer?

Question 17

A good disinfectant

1. Should be persistent enough to prevent regrowth of organisms in the distribution system.

2. Must be toxic to micro-organisms at concentrations well above the toxic thresholds of humans and higher animals.

3. Should have a fast rate of kill of microorganisms.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Question 18

The end tie plates are provided in the laced column to

Question 19

Consider the following statements

i) Providing excessive reinforcement in beams can result in congestion, and therefore the reinforcement is restricted to 6% in beams.

ii) The minimum steel requirements of slabs are based on considerations made due to temperature, shrinkage etc.

Which of the above is/is correct?

Question 20

The shear stress at the neutral axis in a beam of triangular-section with a base of 40 mm and height 20 mm, subjected to a shear force of 3 kN is

Question 21

The free speed of a passenger car on a 4 lane road is 90 km/hr, while that of a truck is 45 km/hr. Under the jam condition, the average length occupied by the passenger car is 5 m, while that of a truck is 10 m, the PCU of the truck is -

Question 22

Assertion (A): If the plane table station ‘P’ lies on the great circle passing through the stations A, B and C, then the position point ‘P’ can be determined by the three-point problem.

Reason (R): The problem becomes indeterminate as the three rays will interact at one point irrespective of the orientation of the plane table.

Question 23

In a 2cm diameter pipeline carrying laminar-flow of a liquid with μ = 0.8 centipoise, the velocity at the axis is 4m/s. What is the shear stress midway between the wall and the axis?

Question 24

The intensity of rainfall and time interval of typical storms are given below:

The maximum intensity of rainfall for 10 min duration of the storm is?

Question 25

A wooden pile is driven using a drop hammer. The weight and free falling height of the drop hammer are found to be 25KN and 0.8m. Find the load carrying capacity (in kN) of the pile according to Engineering News Formula. The penetration in the last blow is 12mm.

Question 26

A new reservoir has a capacity of 12000000 m³ and its catchment area is 400 km². The annual sediment yield from this catchment is 0.1 ha-m/km², and the trap efficiency can be assumed constant at 90%. The number of years it takes for the reservoir to loose 50% of its initial capacity is nearly

Question 27

Maturity of fully matured Concrete @ 28 days as per plowman is

Question 28

Ammonia nitrogen is present in a given wastewater sample as the ammonium ion (NH₄⁺) and ammonia (NH₃). If pH is the only deciding factor for the proportion of these two constituents, which of the following is a correct statement?

Question 29

Fatique strength of light to medium cranes is not need to be checked if the number of cycles is less than

(Symbols have their usual meaning)

Question 30

A rectangular 230 mm × 350 mm (effective depth) beam is given. The factored shear force acting at a section is 80 kN. If the permissible shear stress in concrete is 0·25 MPa, the design shear force is nearly

Question 31

A square cross-sectional beam of dimensions b × d units is cutted in ‘n’ number of pieces along the depth and then stocked up on each other giving a new section of the same dimension. The moment carrying ratio of the solid square case to that of the stacked one is approximately equal to _______.

Question 32

Which of the following is correct for Composite Sleeper Index?

i. CSI is used to determine suitability of particular timber for use as a sleeper.

ii. It measures the mechanical strength of timber, derived from its composite properties of strength & hardness.

Select the correct code.

Question 33

The length & bearings of a closed traverse are given as

Find the closing error in latitude.