Concrete Technology LAB VIVA Questions:-

1. List out various tests on Cement?

2. List out various tests on Fine Aggregate?
3. List out various tests on Coarse Aggregate?
4. List out various tests on Bitumen?
5. What do you know about NDT?
6. List out various equipment used in NDT?
7. Vicat Apparatus is used for?
8. Initial Setting Time of Cement?
9. Final Setting Time of Cement?
10. List out Grades of Cement available in Market?
11. Apparatus used for Soundness of Cement?
12. Equipment used for Abrasion Test?
13. Equipment used for Attrition Test?
14. Workability Means?
15. List out Workability Tests?
16. Slump value required for RCC Slab?
17. What is Segregation of concrete?
18. List out various sizes of Coarse Aggregate used in Concrete?
19. Equipment used to test Compressive Strength of Concrete?
20. Size of Concrete Cubes?
21. What is the standard w/c value for nominal mix of concrete?
22. Density of Concrete?
23. No. of Cube samples required for testing Compressive Strength for 100 m3 of concrete?
24. List out Shape Tests on Coarse Aggregate?
25. Aggregate Impact value of material A is 15 and that of B is 35. Which one is better for
surface course?
26. The abrasion value found from Los Angeles test for two aggregates A and B are 50%
and 38% respectively. Which aggregate is harder?
27. Two materials have abrasion values 3 and 10 respectively. Which one is harder and
why?
28. Define flash and fire points of Bitumen?
29. Define specific gravity?
30. What do you understand by the term 80/100 bitumen?
31. What is softening point?
32. If material A has softening point of 56 and B has 42 which binder is good and why?
33. List the factors that affect the result of a ductility test?
34. Explain the significance of ductility test?
35. Explain the term viscosity?
36. Explain aggregate crushing value. How would you express?
37. Aggregate crushing value of material A is 40 and that of B is 25. Which one is better and
why?
38. How is aggregate impact value expressed?
39. Aggregate impact value material A is 20 and that of B is 45. Which one is better for
surface course? Why? 40. Explain ductility of Bitumen and its significance?

Environmental Engineering LAB VIVA Questions :-

1. List out Experiments on Water?
2. What is Reagents?
3. Explain Acidity Test?
4. Types of Acidity?
5. Explain Alkaline Test?
6. List out materials contributed towards Alkalinity?
7. How to do know about Acidity or Alkalinity of water?
8. Explain Chloride Test?
9. Effects of Chloride presence in Water?
10. Explain Total Hardness Test?
11. Hardness of water caused due the presence of which material?
12. Explain pH Test?
13. Explain Electrical Conductivity Test?
14. Explain Turbidity Test?
15. How to measure Turbidity of water?
16. What is Coagulant? Explain with Example?
17. What is the use of Chlorine?
18. How to determine Total Solids in water?
19. How to determine Total Dissolved Solids?
20. How to determine Total Fixed and Volatile Solids?21. Explain DO Test?
22. Explain BOD Test?
23. What is the use of Flame Photometer?
24. What is need to UV Test?
25. What is Residual Chlorine?
26. Effects of Fluoride presence in Water?
27. The acceptable value of pH of potable water?
28. Water with hardness upto 50 ppm is known as?
29. Bleaching Powder is mixed in water for?
30. Potable water means?
Transportation Engineering LAB VIVA Questions:-
1. What do you mean by elongation index of an aggregate?
2. What do you infer from elongation index?
3. How the elongation index of the sample helps in deciding the design of a highway?
4. What do you mean by flakiness index of an aggregate?
5. What do you infer from flakiness index?
6. How the flakiness index of the sample helps in deciding the design of a highway?
7. How is aggregate Impact expressed?
8. What do you understand by dry and wet Impact value?
9. Aggregate Impact value of material A is 15 and that of B is 35. Which one is better for
surface course?
10. The abrasion value found from Los Angeles test for two aggregates A and B are 50% and
38% respectively. Which aggregate is harder? Why? For what types of constructions are
these suitable?
11. Why Los Angeles abrasion test is considered superior to the other form of tests which
are used to determine the hardness of aggregates?
12. Two materials have abrasion values 3 and 10 respectively. Which one is harder and
why?
13. How does the Water absorption of the coarse aggregate affects the mix design of
concrete?
14. Define flash and fire points.
15. What is the significance of flash and fire point test?
16. What are the parameter that affects the result of flash and fire point tests?
17. Define specific gravity.
18. What is the use of finding specific gravity?
19. What are the factors affecting specific gravity test?
20. What are the applications of penetration test?
21. What do you understand by the term 30/40 bitumen?
22. What are the precautions to be taken while conducting a penetration test?
23. What are the factors which affect the ring and ball test results?
24. What is softening point? If material A has softening point of 56 and B has 42 which
binder is good and why?
25. List the factors that affect the result of a ductility test.
26. What do you understand by the term repeatability and reproducibility?
27. Explain the significance of ductility test.
28. Explain the term viscosity.
29. What are the uses of viscosity test?
30. What are the precautions to be taken during viscosity test using orifice viscometer?
31. What is the significance of flow value in Marshall Test?
32. What is filler?
33. What are the essential properties of bituminous mixes?
34. What are the lab tests on bitumen
35. What is Ten percent fines ?
36. What is Angularity number?
37. What is Marshall stability ?
38. What is Flow value?
39. What is CBR?
40. What is PHF?
41. What is OMC?
42. What is PCU?
43. What is Desire line diagram?

Water Resources Engineering LAB VIVA Questions :-

1. Irrigation
2. Types of Irrigation
3. Hydrologic Cycle
4. Hydrographs
5. Calculation of Average Rainfall in a Catchment
6. Types of Catchment
7. Runoff
8. Factors affecting Runoff
9. Yield of Well
10. Factors affecting Yield of Well
11. Estimation of Yield of Well
12. Water Logging and Salinity of Soil
13. Factors affecting Water Logging
14. Effects of Water Logging
15. Reclamation of Water Logged area
16. River Training Works
17. Objective of River Training Works
18. Meandering
19. Dams
20. Types of Dams
21. Factors affecting selection of dam
22. Weir vs Barrage
23. Cross Drainage Works
24. Aqueduct vs Super-passage
25. Spillways