Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Part- 2 Soil Mechanics and foundation Engineering- GATE 2014 exam preparation

1. For a clay slope of height 10 m, if stability number is 0.05, bulk density is 20 kN/m^2, cohesion is 25 kN/m^2, then critical height of the slope in the soil is 25.0 m.

2. A strip footing of width 1.0 m is resting on a soft clay strata at a depth of 1.0 m. The angle of internal friction is zero, and cohesion is 20 kN/m^2. The water table is at a great depth. The ultimate bearing capacity of soil according to Terzaghi's equation is 114 kN/m^2.

3. Gross bearing capacity of a footing is 450 kN/m^2. If footing is 1.5 m wide at a depth of 1 m in clayey soil with unit weight of 20 kN/m^3, then net bearing capacitywill be 430 kN/m^3.

4. A 30 cm diameter friction pile is embedded 10 m into a homogeneous consolidated deposit. Unit adhesion developed between clay and pile shaft is 4 t/m^2 and adhesion factor is 0.7. The safe load for factor of safety 2.5 will be 10.55 t.

5. A single acting steam hammer weighing 82.5 kN and falling through a height of 1.2 m drives a pile. If final set is 12.5 mm, then according to Engineering News formula. [ P= WH/ 6(s+0.25)]

6. If bearing capacity of a strip footing on a saturated clay is 120 kN/m^2, then bearing capacity of a circular footing(diameter = width) will be more than 120 kN/m2.

7. Following data is obtained from a void ratio- pressure diagram, e1= 0.6;  e2 = 0.7; S1 = 17; S2 = 17.5, then the co-efficient of compressibility is 0.2 m^2/t

to be continued to part -3....

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