ome) Pens Your Ferformance Solutions Key TopRankers ‘One Mark Questions Which of the following sil wndergoes reduction in volume with fe] increas in moisture conten without any hangs in applied tess (A) Varved clay (B) Loess a (© Talus (©) Dunesind % For a anise sizeof diameter 6 1m, the temsinal velocity wil be fe] aout (9)0.03 ms 002 ms (© 001 ms (0)0.04 ms Comechone erate 3 Maximum particle size for vhich Darcy's law is applicable fi] (02m @)05 um (10mm 20mm 4 Awell defined and inlined fue plane with all xia stain ee in fi] (A)Dense snd ©) Medium snd (©)Lo0se sand site shox hon 5 The ents (core A.B, C& D) of four compaction text on dierent o2 1. Silty sand, modified test 2. Silty sand, standard test, 43. Fat clay, modified test 4. Fat clay, standard test INA Curve A,B,C & D coresponding respect (13.2ad4 B)12,3nd4 (21,3 md4 (D)2,1.4 and3 Two marks questions ol Queens: 10 A fully saturated clay having natural moisture content of 42% reduced 10 20% by evaporation. The specific gravity of lay is 2.68. Ifthe sinkage limit is 25%, the pereentage deerease to be expected in unit volumeofelay is___(round offto 2 desimal places) CorectArover 2482 donner ange (213, 214) Nex acepted:O Laboratory sieve analysis on a soil sample yielded ‘Sieve vie | 473mm | 75 an Vetiner [7% [10% ‘The sie of oparegstes vary linearly & found that patcles finer han 7S 4m are highly plate, The soil sample as per IS classification systems (aysP-SM @)sw-sM cosp-se (ysw-se Corecthramerc€ Nev Atenpied ‘A clay sample of mass 700 gm was coated with paraffin wax, ‘The combined mass of clay & the wax was found to be 710 gm. By imersion the sample in water, volume was found as 350 The specitc pravity & water content of clay were found as 2.7 & 15% respectively the void ratio of sample (Take specific gravity of wa as 0.9 rund off to? decimal places)Cores fraven 050 Arar ange (05,0507 pected % In a falling head permeability test, head causing flow was initially 40 cm and it drops by $ cm in $ minutes. The time required for the ‘head to fll t0 20 emis (22 minutes (B)24 minutes (©) 26 minutes (D) 30 minutes 10 4 Granular deposit is 10 m deep over an impermeable layer. The ground water table is lowered ftom a depth of 3 mto a depth of 6 m ‘and deposit remain saturated even afer WT is lowered the increases in effective tess x depth of 10 mis_kNint (Assume the water content is 30% and specific gravity 2.7, y= 9.81 N/m, round oft to 2 decimal places) Core iraver 2848 Sogn Range 294,295) Your Arsen Sas 149 m thick saturated clay having natural water content 20% & G = 2.7 is underlain by sand. The sand is under artesian pressure cquivalent to 4m of water head. It is proposed to make an open «excavation in clay, the depth exeavaton tobe made aginst henving at bottom with F.0.8 2". (= 9.81 kNim!) w7im som ©s2m orm Corecenanere —Astamemmas *2 A rectangular foundation 20 m x 10 m subjects the subgrade to a contact pressure of 250 KNint. The vertical stess at a point “P” located at depth of Sm is Nim? (round off to 2 decimal place) 20m 1om| ma 02461 [a jours 3 [poses 3 fr _[ozos 2 |r pores CorestArover 3A Aner Rage, 2.8) ner arenes: @ "A bore hole fog obtained during sub surface investigation results as shovm in figure. There are two layers of clay of thickness 2 m each, located 6 m & 15 m below around surface. The bulk density of sand & clay were found to be 2 gimice & 1.82 gmnice respectively. If an uniformly distributed load of $00 kNint spread over a large surfees, the total settlement, ta clay layers is = (Assume C, = 0.4, 6 1.08.7 = 9.81 KNin (round off t0 2 decimal places). pre om ‘sind 2 mf chy 7a Sand 2 af they Corea arenec0s4 Aran angefO54,057) pec amped sow sokinon| 14 A saturated clay layer of 4 m thickness drained on the both sides reaches 50% primary consolidation in 2 years. If co-efficient of volumetric compressibility, my is 2 x 10" ms!AN, The eo-eicient of permeability (in myx) (Assume m= 10 KN) (A)69 107 (B)78 «102 (81 x 108 (D)72« 109 *© A CU test conducted on @ soil sample with cell pressure, ‘oc = 150 KNin®. The deviatric sess at failure was observed to be 100 KN, shear strength parameters under drained conditions are (C’=0, = 305) and undrained consist (C, = 0, = 159) The pore water pressure at failure is_ kim? Conese Arane 480 Aner Range (10, 100 Youranawerd