SALEM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY,

SALEM-111
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
INTERNAL EXAMINATION - I
Subject CodeN!"e # CE$%&& G'ou(d
I")'o*e"e(t Tec+,
De)!'t"e(t # CIVIL
Ye!'Se" # IVVII
Re- No, #
M!. M!'/0 # 1%
D!te # $1-%2-$%13
T4"e # 11$ H'0
PART A
5A(06e' !77 8ue0t4o(0 1% $ 9 $%:
1. How do cantilever retaining walls derive its name?
2. Illustrate with a neat sketch of cantilever retaining wall?
3. Define the term Surcharge.
4. h! counterforts are "rovided in a counterfort retaining wall?
#. hat is the function of Shear ke!?
$. How the develo"ment of tension in a %ase sla% is checked?
&. hat is a %uttressed retaining wall?
'. hat do !ou mean %! the %ackfill of a retaining wall?
(. )ist out various forces su%*ected to a cantilever retaining wall.
1+. ,rief how the vertical sla% for the counterfort retaining wall is
designed.
PART ;
5A(06e' !77 8ue0t4o(0 & < 1% 9 &%:
11. -a. Design a cantilever retaining wall to retain #m of hori/ontal
%ackfill0 densit! of soil 1$# k12m
2
0 3 2#40 coefficient of friction
%etween %ase sla% and concrete 3 +.##0 5se 62+ grade of concrete and
7e41# steel.

OR
-%. 89"lain the general design re:uirements for retaining walls and
methods of designing a shear ke! in a retaining wall.
12. -a. 89"lain in detail the 8lectro;osmotic drainage with neat sketches.
OR
-%. 89"lain the various t!"es of drains with neat sketches.

13. -a. -i.State the various "ro"erties of flow net. -3.
-ii. 89"lain %riefl! the various a""lications of flow net in
see"age anal!sis. -#.
-iii. Define dewatering. -2.
OR
-%. 89"lain in detail dee" well drainage s!stem

PREPARED ;Y VERIFIED ;Y PRINCIPAL