Meghna Petroleum Ltd.

(Chittagong)
Exam Venue: BUET
Date: 6/1/2017

# Non Dept. MCQ (0.5*80 = 40 marks)

1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: (1*10=10 marks) - Departmental.

Answer the following questions: (5*10= 50 marks)
2. Determine the flexure and shear stress of the following cantilever beam if the
section is 1ft*1ft.
10 kip

10 feet

3. Determine the number of bags of cement required to cast 40 feet long span beam
if the beam section is 12inch*15 inch and mix ratio is 1:2:4.
4. Calculate the allowable soil pressure of a raft foundation (10m*10m) having
depth of foundation 5m, Nc=7, F. S =2 and undrained cohesion, C=40kn/m^2.
5. Two lane two-way highway street having ADT 4000. If the commercial vehicle
is 45% and loads 27kip then calculate the ESAL (Equivalent Single Axel Load) for
commercial vehicles.
6. A surveyor measured a distance 25302 m by a faulty chain. If the actual
measurement is 25360 m, then how much correction is required?
7. Determination of F.M of fine aggregate portion only from a sieve analysis result.
Also determine the percentages of coarse aggregate and silts and clay.
19mm 12.5mm 4.75mm 2.36mm 1.18mm 0.6mm 0.3mm 0.15mm 0.075mm Pan
175 125 100 50 20 10 10 4 4 2
8. What is BOD? Calculate the ultimate BOD of a BOD sample if 5-days BOD is
200mg/L and k (e-base) =0.22.
9. Calculate the velocity of a trapezoidal section if the discharge is 11.25 m^3/sec.
Side slope 1:1, bottom width 6m and depth of flow is 1.5m.
10. For a coarse aggregate sample air dry wt. of sample is 1790gm, wt. when it is
immersed in water is 1180gm and SSD wt. is 1850gm. Calculate the bulk sp.
Gravity, Apparent sp. Gravity and % of absorption.
11. Draw a stress strain curve of mild steel showing all important parameters.