Soil Mechanics and Foundation Dispersed type of soil structure is an arrangement comprising particles having face to face or parallel orientation edge to edge orientation All of these edge to face orientation face to face or parallel orientation edge to edge orientation All of these edge to face orientation ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation A plane inclined at an angle ‘φ’ to the horizontal at which the soil is expected to stay in the absence of any lateral support, is known as Repose line Natural slope line The φ line All listed here Repose line Natural slope line The φ line All listed here ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation The effect of cohesion on a soil is to increase both the active earth pressure intensity and passive earth pressure intensity increase the active earth pressure in-tensity but to reduce the passive earth pressure intensity [GATE 99] reduce the active earth pressure in-tensity but to increase the passive earth pressure intensity reduce both the active earth pressure intensity and passive earth pressure intensity increase both the active earth pressure intensity and passive earth pressure intensity increase the active earth pressure in-tensity but to reduce the passive earth pressure intensity [GATE 99] reduce the active earth pressure in-tensity but to increase the passive earth pressure intensity reduce both the active earth pressure intensity and passive earth pressure intensity ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation A tri-axial shear test is preferred to direct shear test, because Precise measurement of pore pressure and change in volume during test, is not possible It can be performed under all three drainage conditions with complete control None of these Stress distribution on the failure plane, is non uniform Precise measurement of pore pressure and change in volume during test, is not possible It can be performed under all three drainage conditions with complete control None of these Stress distribution on the failure plane, is non uniform ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation If the voids of a soil mass are full of air only, the soil is termed as air entrained soil partially saturated soil dehydrated soil dry soil air entrained soil partially saturated soil dehydrated soil dry soil ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation For better strength and stability, the fine grained soils and coarse grained soils are compacted respectively as dry of OMC and wet of OMC dry of OMC and dry of OMC where OMC is optimum moisture content wet of OMC and wet of OMC wet of OMC and dry of OMC dry of OMC and wet of OMC dry of OMC and dry of OMC where OMC is optimum moisture content wet of OMC and wet of OMC wet of OMC and dry of OMC ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP