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N-GEO\OBJ.PM5 896896 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
- Unconfined compression strength, area correction, etc.
- Taylor’s stability number, computation of factor of safety of a slope, etc.
- Boussinesq’s point–load equation for vertical stress, Equivalent point-load method-ap-
plication to stress distribution problems, etc. - Rankine’s theory–active and passive pressures with or without surcharge for cohesionless
and cohesive back fills, critical depth, depth of tension cracks in cohesive back fills, etc. - Bearing capacity of continuous, square, and circular footings in purely cohesive and
cohesionless soils, with adequate data. - Application of Engineering News formula for allowable load on a pile, etc.
- Area ratio of a sampler, sampling disturbance, etc.
Answers to Objective Questions in “Geotechnical Engineering”
- Soils deposited in lake bed
- Wind–borne deposits
- Montmorillonite
- Leaching
- (c)
- dispersed
- (d)
- the denominator–volume of solids–is rela-
tively a constant value - weight of water divided by the total weight
expressed as a percentage - (a)
- False
- (c)
- (a)
- (d)
- it is relatively constant value
- (i) darker
(ii) lighter
(iii) darker - plate-like
- (a)
- hygroscopic moisture
- total or wet
- It is so because the densest state as obtain-
ing in nature cannot always be simulated
in the laboratory. - A very wide range of grain sizes can be rep-
resented in one plot–(sand, silt and clay
sizes can be plotted in one graph) - Terminal velocity
- dispersing
- (b)
- nonplastic
- Plastic and shrinkage
- (d)
- Mercury displacement
- mass or apparent
- Extra-sensitive, flocculent
- clay
- Silts
- Rock flour
- Montmorillonite
- Public Roads Administration (PRA) (USA)
- (b)
- (a)
- GW (Well-graded gravel)
- greater than 50
- their grain size is very small and conse-
quently their specific surface is very high - 105°C – 110°C
- compressibility and shear strength
- laminar
- Vs = V
n
, n being the porosity- (d)
- negligible
- True
- varying head