Basic Civil Engineering & Mechanics (BT-204) - Important Questions

Explain the various types of doors and windows used in building construction with neat sketches and their suitability.

Explain the purpose of foundations and describe different types of foundations including conventional spread footings and RCC footings with neat sketches.

Explain the physical and chemical properties/characteristics of concrete.

Define workability of concrete and explain the factors affecting workability.

Explain the types, properties, tests and uses of stones, bricks, cement, lime and timber used in building construction.

Explain nominal proportion of concrete, preparation of concrete, compaction and curing. Discuss strength properties of concrete.

Explain the individual components/parts of a theodolite with a neat sketch.

Find RLs of all points by Rise and Fall method with arithmetic check when the instrument is shifted after the fourth and eighth readings and the last reading is on a known BM.

Explain measurement of directions by different methods in surveying. What is local attraction in surveying and how is it detected at any survey station?

Explain the principle of remote sensing and its applications in construction and civil engineering including terrain analysis, site investigation and material inventories.

Compute area between chain line, irregular boundary and end offsets from given offsets at regular interval using i) Mid-Ordinate Rule ii) Average-Ordinate Rule iii) Trapezoidal Rule iv) Simpson's Rule.

Determine the forces in all members of a plane truss using the method of joints.

Find the least value of P to cause impending motion to the left for the system of blocks with coefficient of friction 0.20 under each block.

Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for a simply supported beam of span L carrying U.D.L. of intensity W over the entire span and find maximum shear force and bending moment.

Determine the moment of inertia of the given plane lamina about its centroidal axis.

What do you understand by support reactions and its types? Explain shear force and bending moment for a cantilever and simply supported beam with concentrated, distributed load and couple.