Civil Engineering Gate Yearwise
Civil Engineering Gate 2018 Set-I Questions
Ques 1Aptitude
“The driver applied the _______ as soon as she approached the hotel where she wanted to
take a ________.”
The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are
a. brake, break
b. break, break
c. brake, brake
d. break, brake
a is the correct answer.
Ques 2Aptitude
Hema’s age is 5 years more than twice Hari’s age. Suresh’s age is 13 years less than 10 times Hari’s age. If Suresh is 3 times as old as Hema, how old is Hema?
a. 14
b. 17
c. 18
d. 19
d is the correct answer.
Ques 3Aptitude
"It is no surprise that every society has had codes of behaviour; however, the nature of
these codes is often _________."
The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
a. unpredictable
b. simple
c. expected
d. strict
a is the correct answer.
Ques 4Aptitude
Tower A is 90 m tall and tower B is 140 m tall. They are 100 m apart. A horizontal skywalk connects the floors at 70 m in both the towers. If a taut rope connects the top of tower A to the bottom of tower B, at what distance (in meters) from tower A will the rope intersect the skywalk?
a. 22.22
b. 50
c. 57.87
d. 77.78
a is the correct answer.
Ques 5Aptitude
A fruit seller sold a basket of fruits at 12.5% loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 108 more, he would have made a 10% gain. What is the loss in Rupees incurred by the fruit seller?
a. 48
b. 52
c. 60
d. 108
c is the correct answer.
Ques 6Aptitude
The price of a wire made of a superalloy material is proportional to the square of its length. The price of 10 m length of the wire is Rs. 1600. What would be the total price (in Rs.) of two wires of lengths 4 m and 6m?
a. 768
b. 832
c. 1440
d. 1600
b is the correct answer.
Ques 7Environmental Engineering
There are 20,000 vehicles operating in a city with an average annual travel of 12,000 km per vehicle. The NOx emission rate is 2.0 g/km per vehicle. The total annual release of NOx will be
a. 4,80,000 kg
b. 4,800 kg
c. 480 kg
d. 48 kg
a is the correct answer.
Ques 8Geotechnical Engineering
The percent reduction in the bearing capacity of a strip footing resting on sand under flooding condition (water level at the base of the footing) when compared to the situation where the water level is at a depth much greater than the width of footing, is approximately
a. 0
b. 25
c. 50
d. 100
c is the correct answer.
Ques 9Geotechnical Engineering
The width of a square footing and the diameter of a circular footing are equal. If both the footings are placed on the surface of sandy soil, the ratio of the ultimate bearing capacity of circular footing to that of square footing will be
a. 4/3
b. 25
c. 3/4
d. 2/3
c is the correct answer.
Ques 10Mathematics
At the point 𝑥 = 0, the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥3 has
a. local maximum
b. local minimum
c. both local maximum and minimum
d. neither local maximum nor local minimum
b is the correct answer.
Ques 11Structural Engineering
A column of height h with a rectangular cross-section of size a×2a has a buckling load of P. If the cross-section is changed to 0.5a × 3a and its height changed to 1.5h, the buckling load of the redesigned column will be
a. P/12
b. P/4
c. P/2
d. 3P/4
a is the correct answer.
Ques 12Structural Engineering
A steel column of ISHB 350 @72.4 kg/m is subjected to a factored axial compressive load of 2000 kN. The load is transferred to a concrete pedestal of grade M20 through a square base plate. Consider bearing strength of concrete as 0.45fck, where fck is the characteristic strength of concrete. Using limit state method and neglecting the self weight of base plate and steel column, the length of a side of the base plate to be provided is
a. 39 cm
b. 42 cm
c. 45 cm
d. 48 cm
d is the correct answer.
Ques 13Structural Engineering
The Le Chatelier apparatus is used to determine
a. compressive strength of cement
b. fineness of cement
c. setting time of cement
d. soundness of cement
d is the correct answer.
Ques 14Structural Engineering
The deformation in concrete due to sustained loading is
a. creep
b. hydration
c. segregation
d. shrinkage
a is the correct answer.
Ques 15Structural Engineering
Two rectangular under-reinforced concrete beam sections X and Y are similar in all aspects except that the longitudinal compression reinforcement in section Y is 10% more. Which one of the following is the correct statement?
a. Section X has less flexural strength and is less ductile than section Y
b. Section X has less flexural strength but is more ductile than section Y
c. Sections X and Y have equal flexural strength but different ductility
d. Sections X and Y have equal flexural strength and ductility
a is the correct answer.
Ques 16Water Resources
Bernoulli’s equation is applicable for
a. viscous and compressible fluid flow
b. inviscid and compressible fluid flow
c. inviscid and incompressible fluid flow
d. viscous and incompressible fluid flow
c is the correct answer.