HGE Terms

The weight per unit volume of a liquid at a standard temperature and pressure is called _________?

• Specific Weight

• Specific Gravity

• Mass Density

• None of the above

In Civil Engineering, soil is ________?

• Found in Earth's Crust

• It is all plants grow

• Uncemented Aggregate

• All of these

Specific Weight of liquid ________

• Remains constant at every place

• Does not remain constant at every place

• Does not vary on any other planet

• Varies from place to place on the earth

Negative Skin Friction on Piles ________

• Caused by soft clay

• Decreases the pile capacity

• Is caused due to relative settlement of soil

• All of the above

The metacentric height is the distance between the ________

• Center of gravity of the floating body and the

  center of buoyancy

• Center of the gravity of the floating body and the

  metacenter

• Metacenter and the center of buoyancy

• Original center of buoyancy and new center of

  buoyancy

When the metacenter of a floating body is lower than the center of gravity, then the body will be in

_______

• Unstable equilibrium

• Stable equilibrium

• Neutral equilibrium

• None of the above

The intensity of vertical stress at a depth due to a point load acting on the surface of a semi infinite elastic

soil mass is ________.

• Directly proportional to the depth

• Inversely proportional to the depth

• Directly proportional to the square of depth

• Inversely proportional to the square of depth.

The shear strength of a cohesionless soil is ________.

• Proportional to the angle of the shearing

  resistance

• Inversely proportional to the angle of shearing

  resistance

• Proportional to the tangent of the angle of

  shearing resistance

• None of the above

If the volume of voids is equal to the volume of solids, what is the porosity and void ratio equal to

respectively ?

• 0.5 and 1.0

• 0 and 0.5

• 0 and 1

• 1 and 0.5

Where is the metacenter for stable equilibrium ?

• Above the center of gravity

• At the center of gravity

• Below the center of gravity

• One half of the total draft