Civil Engineering GATE 2014 Set-1 Questions with Answer

Ques 27 General Aptitude

A foundry has a fixed daily cost of Rs 50,000 whenever it operates and a variable cost of Rs 800Q, where Q is the daily production in tonnes. What is the cost of production in Rs per tonne for a daily production of 100 tonnes?

Ques 28 General Aptitude

Find the odd one in the following group:
ALRVX, EPVZB, ITZDF, OYEIK

Ques 29 General Aptitude

Anuj, Bhola, Chandan, Dilip, Eswar and Faisal live on different floors in a six-storeyed building (the ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it 2, and so on). Anuj lives on an even-numbered floor. Bhola does not live on an odd numbered floor. Chandan does not live on any of the floors below Faisal’s floor. Dilip does not live on floor number 2. Eswar does not live on a floor immediately above or immediately below Bhola. Faisal lives three floors above Dilip. Which of the following floor-person combinations is correct?

Ques 30 General Aptitude

The smallest angle of a triangle is equal to two thirds of the smallest angle of a quadrilateral. The ratio between the angles of the quadrilateral is 3:4:5:6. The largest angle of the triangle is twice its smallest angle. What is the sum, in degrees, of the second largest angle of the triangle and the largest angle of the quadrilateral?

Ques 31 General Aptitude

One percent of the people of country X are taller than 6 ft. Two percent of the people of country Y are taller than 6 ft. There are thrice as many people in country X as in country Y. Taking both countries together, what is the percentage of people taller than 6 ft?

Ques 32 General Aptitude

The monthly rainfall chart based on 50 years of rainfall in Agra is shown in the following figure. Which of the following are true? (k percentile is the value such that k percent of the data fall below that value)

Ques 33 Geomatics Engineering

The Reduced Levels (RLs) of the points P and Q are +49.600 m and +51.870 m respectively. Distance PQ is 20 m. The distance (in m from P) at which the +51.000 m contour cuts the line PQ is

Ques 34 Geotechnical Engineering

The degree of disturbance of the sample collected by the sampler is expressed by a term called the "area ratio". If the outer diameter and inner diameter of the sampler are D_o and D_i respectively, the area ratio is given by

Ques 35 Geotechnical Engineering

For a saturated cohesive soil, a triaxial test yields the angle of internal friction (φ) as zero. The conducted test is

Ques 36 Geotechnical Engineering

The action of negative skin friction on the pile is to

Ques 37 Geotechnical Engineering

A long slope is formed in a soil with shear strength parameters: c’ = 0 and φ’ = 34^o. A firm stratum lies below the slope and it is assumed that the water table may occasionally rise to the surface, with seepage taking place parallel to the slope. Use γ_sat = 18 kN/m³ and γ_w = 10 kN/m³. The maximum slope angle (in degrees) to ensure a factor of safety of 1.5, assuming a potential failure surface parallel to the slope, would be

Ques 38 Geotechnical Engineering

Group I contains representative load-settlement curves for different modes of bearing capacity failures of sandy soil. Group II enlists the various failure characteristics. Match the load-settlement curves with the corresponding failure characteristics.

Ques 39 Geotechnical Engineering

A given cohesionless soil has e_max = 0.85 and e_min = 0.50. In the field, the soil is compacted to a dry unit weight of 18 kN/m³ at a water content of 8%. Take the unit weight of water as 10 kN/m³ and G_s as 2.7. The relative density (in %) of the soil is