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Civil Engineering - Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

Exercise : Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Section 4
6.
According to IS : 2720 - 1965, the composition of a dispersing solution used in pipette analysis for determining the size of particles, is
sodium-hexametaphosphate 33 g, sodium carbonate 7 g and distilled water one litre
sodium-hexametaphosphate 7 g, sodium carbonate 33 g and distilled water one litre
sodium-hexametaphosphate 23 g, sodium carbonate 17 g and distilled water one litre
none of these.
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7.
Cohesive soils are generally
plastic and also compressible
elastic and also compressible
plastic but incompressible
none of these.
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8.
If the coefficient of the active pressure Ka is 1/3, the coefficient of passive pressure Kp, is
1/3
2/3
1
3/2
3
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9.
The inventor of the term soil mechanics, was
Kray
Dr. Karl Terzaghi
Leygue
Fellenius.
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10.
Compression of soil occurs rapidly if voids are filled with
air
water
partly with air and partly with water
none of these.
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