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• Define civil engineering?
  Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design,
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• construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including
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• works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.Civil engineering is the oldest
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• engineering discipline after military engineering, and it was defined to distinguish
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• non-military engineering from military engineering.
  
  Draw the stress-strain curves of mild steel?
  
  Define duty and delta?
  
  Difference between pre-tensioning and post-tensioning?

• What is camber?
  
  Camber may refer to a variety of curvatures and angles:
  
  Camber (aerodynamics),the asymmetry between the top and bottom curves of an aerofoil
  
  Cant (road/rail),the convex curvature of a road surface in road construction
  
  Camber beam, an upward curvature of a joist to compensate for load deflection due in buildings
   
• What is the role of a plate girder in a railway bridge?
   
• What is piping failure?
   
• How many express ways are there in India?
   
• How can you measure the amount of rainfall?
   
• What are the diffent types of pile foundation?
• Types of piles based on the mechanism of Load Transfer:
  
  End/Point Bearing Piles, Friction Piles, Friction cum end bearing pile
  
  Classification of Piles according to the Method of Installation of piles : Driven or displacement piles, Driven or displacement pile
  
  Classification of Piles according to Materials : Timber piles, Steel piles, Concrete Piles , Composite piles
   
• What is quick sand?
   
• What kind of foundations do you use for flyovers?
   
• How is the theodolite levelled?
   
• What is the difference between bitumen and tar?
   
• Which is commonly used - tar or bitumen? Why?
   
• What is N-value? 
   
• What is hydraulic jump?
   
• What is Reynolds's number?
   
• What is differential settlement?
   
• Differentiate between BOD and COD.
   
• Which is better - Tiled roof or Terraced roof?
   
• What does 20 stand for in M20-mix concrete?
   
• Give the standard lengths of chains used for surveying?
   
• Define angularity number and give its practical applications?
   
• What is cutback bitumen?
   
• Define duty and delta.
   
• Differentiate between pre-tensioning and post-tensioning.
  
   
• What is total energy line?
   
• What is the difference between hollow bricks and ordinary bricks?
   
• Name the different types of retaining wall.
   
• What is leap-frog trigonometric levelling?
   
• What are the dimensions of a standard brick?
   
• Differentiate between English bond and Flemish bond.
   
• What are AADT, AASHO and ASCE?
   
• What does IRC stand for?
   
• Which instrument is used for measuring unevenness in a road?
   
• What is a benchmark? What are the different types of benchmarks?
   
• Expand PERT? How is it different from CPM and GANTT?
   
• What are the common earth-moving equipment?
   
• How is under-water concreting carried out?
   
• On what basis are the foundations classified as shallow and deep?
  
  
  • For construction purpose which of the following is preferred – a pre-cast pile or a cast-in-suite pile?
  
  • What is pre-stressed concrete?
  
  • What are the ingredients of pre-stressed concrete?
  
  • What does the 53 stand for in 53-grade cement?
  
  • What type of foundation would you prefer for a multistoried building? Support your answer with reasons.
  
  • What are machine foundations?
  
  • How does machine foundations differ in construction from an ordinary foundation?
  
  • What are the requirements of an ideal machine foundation?
  
  • What are the advantages of pre-cast piles?