GENERAL ENGINEERING ( Civil and Structural )

1.(a) What do you understand by the term “fire proof construction”? Describe the
fire resistance properties of the following:
(i) Asbestos (ii) Concrete (iii) Steel 15
(b)What is seasoning of Timber ? Discuss the different methods of seasoning of Timber.
15
(c) Briefly describe Lacey’s Theory of transportation of silt in canals. Design an irrigation
channel in alluvial soil according to Lacey’s regime Theory. The following data is given
Full supply discharge= 15 cumecs
Lacey’s silt factor= 1.0
Channel side slope= ½ H: 1V . 15
(d) (i) Determine Ultimate BOD for a sewage sample having 5 day-200 C BOD as 160ppm.
Assume deoxygenation constant as 0.2 per day.
(ii) A sample of sewage has 4 day-200 C BOD value of 75% of final value. Find the
rate constant(to the base 10) per day. 15
2. (a) List the ten precautions to be taken in theodolite observations. 10
(b) A closed traverse has the following lengths and bearings:
Line Length (m) Bearing
AB 200.00 Roughly East
BC 98.00 1780
CD Not obtained 2700
DA 86.40 10
The length CD could not be measured due to some obstruction in chaining. The
bearing of AB could not be taken as station A was badly affected by local attraction.
Find the length of CD and exact bearing of side AB. 20
(c) Draw a neat sketch of a syphon aqueduct and state conditions under which it is
recommended. 15
(d) Explain the significance of stopping sight distance and overtaking sight distance.
Calculate the values of head light sight distance and intermediate sight distance for a highway
with a design speed of 65km/hr. Assume coefficient of friction as 0.36 and reaction time as
2.5 sec. 15

3. (a) Calculate the total drag, shear drag and the pressure drag exerted on 1 m length of an
infinite circular cylinder which has a diameter equal to 30mm, air of density 1.236 kg/m3
flowing past the cylinder with velocity 3.6 m per minute. Take total drag coefficient equal to
1.4 and shear drag coefficient equal to 0.185. 20

(b) Drive an expression for loss of head due to sudden contraction? Find the loss of head
when a pipe of diameter 200mm is suddenly enlarged to a diameter of 400mm. The rate of
flow of water through the pipe is 250 Ltr./Sec 20
(c ) The following test results were obtained for a fine-grained soil:
WL= 48%;
WP = 26%
Clay content = 55%
Silt content = 35%
Sand content = 10%
In situ moisture content = 39% = w
Classify the soil, and determine its activity and liquidity index 20
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4. (a ) A soil sample has a porosity of 40% .the specific gravity of solids 2.70,
Calculate (a) void ratio
(b) Dry density
(c) Unit weight if the soil is 50% saturated
(d) Unit weight if the soil is completely saturated
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(b) In a basin six rainguage stations are reporting rainfall. In a year, the annual rainfall
recorded by gauges are as follows:

Stations A B C D E F
Rainfall (cm) 41 51 32 55 50 68
For 8% error in estimation of mean rainfall, calculate the optimum number of raingauge
stations in the basin. 20
(c ) What is effective length of column ? Write down the various end conditions and effective
length of column in tablular form. 10
(d) A circular steel pipe of external diameter 60 mm and thickness 8 mm is used as a simply
supported beam over an effective span of 2 m. If permissible stress in steel is 150 N/mm2,
determine the maximum concentrated load that can be carried by it at mid span. 20

5. (a)The bearings observed in traversing with a compass at a place where local attraction
was suspected are given below:
Line Fore Bearing Back Bearing
AB S45030’E N45030’W
BC S60000’E N60040’W
CD N03020’E S05030’W
DA S85000’W N83030’E
At what stations do you suspect local attraction? Find the corrected bearings of the lines. 30

(b) Design a double angle discontinuous strut of a truss to carry load of 160KN. The length of
strut between centre to centre of intersection is 2.6 mtr. Take fy= 250N/mm2. 30

6. (a) Determine the area of reinforcement required for a singly reinforced concrete beam
section of width 300 mm and depth of 675mm effective to support a factored moment of
185KNm.Use M20 mix and Fe415 grade steel. 15

(b) Design the minimum effective depth required and the area of reinforcement for a
rectangular beam having a width of 300mm to resist an ultimate moment of 200KNm.Use
M20 mix and Fe415 grade steel.. 15

(c) A simply supported beam AB is 5.00 mtr long and having UDL of 4KN/m over 3.00 Mtr
span from end A and a point load of 6KN at a distance of 2.00 mtr from end B. calculate the
support reactions and the bending moment diagram. 30