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Civil Engineering - UPSC Civil Service Exam Questions

Exercise : UPSC Civil Service Exam Questions - Section 3
31.
The depreciation charges for a machine are thirty paise per working hour. The machine has a scrap value of Rs 2, 000 and a working hour average life of 24000 hours. What is the purchase price of the machine ?
Rs. 1, 800
Rs. 7, 200
Rs. 9, 200
Rs. 14, 275
Answer: Option
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32.
Denehy's groyne is a special type of groyne which is :
Pointing upstream
Pointing downstream
Hockey type
T - headed
Answer: Option
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33.
As a natural material, timber is which one of the following ?
Isotropic
Anisotropic
Homogeneous
Heterogeneous
Answer: Option
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34.
Consider the implicit details between, before and after successive steps in/within the order while doing time computations on a CPM network. (FP => Forward Pass; BP => Backward Pass; LET => Late Event Time; EET => Early Event Time; TF => Total Float; PD => Project Duration; AD => Activity Duration)
The correct sequence of computation would be
EET, PD, LET, TF
EET, PD, LET, AD
AD, EET, BP, PD
FP, EET, TF, PD
Answer: Option
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35.
A retaining wall 8 m high with a smooth vertical back retains a clay back fill with C' = 15 kN/m2, φ = 15° and γ = 18 kN/ m3. (Given sin 15° ≅ 0.25). The pressure at the top will, nearly, be equal to
35.2 kN/m2
23.0 kN/m2
27.6 kN/m2
11.5 kN/m2
Answer: Option
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