Basic civil and mechanical engineering
A. Civil engineering
2 Marks
Unit – 1
1. Define surveying?
2. Define the term surveying?
3. Name the two principles involved in surveying?
4. What are the components present in chain?
5. Classify the survey based on the purpose?
6. Give the classification of survey base on the instrument used?
7. Define chain surveying?
8. What are the principles of surveying?
9. Write about ranging rod?
10. What are the merits and demerits of a chain?
11. Define bearing of a line?
12. What is meant by bearing?
13. What is meant by local attraction?
14. What is the difference between force bearing and back bearing?
15. What is the difference between whole circle bearing & reduced bearing?
16. Define levelling and benchmark?
17. Define the term levelling?
18. What are the objects of levelling?
19. What is meant by different levelling?
20. Give any two differences between back sight and foresight?
21. Convert the following whole circle bearing to reduced bearing?
(a) 210o30’ (b) 165o
22. Convert the following reduced bearing to whole circle bearing?
(a) S 36030’ W (b) N 540 E
23. Name the two methods available to calculate the reduced levels?
24. What are the main constituents of good brick earth?
25. What are the steps involved in the manufacture of bricks?
26. Name the geological classification of rocks?
27. Name the chemical classification of rocks?
28. Define bulking of sand?
29. Define quarrying and dressing of stones?
30. What are the uses of stones?
31. Describe the preservative materials used for stones?
32. Define dressing of stones?
33. What are the raw materials required for the manufacture of cement?
34. What is the role of gypsum?
35. Define workability?
36. Name the types of cement?
37. Classify the types of cement?
38. What are the uses of cement?
39. Describe properties of cement?
40. Define quick setting cement?
41. Define concrete?
42. Describe chemical constituents of cement?
43. What are the properties of concrete?
44. Discuss uses of concrete?
45. Define aerated concrete and no fine concrete?
46. Define light weight concrete?
47. Define Water – cement ratio?
48. Define workability of concrete?
49. What is the effect of water cement ratio on strength?
50. What are the factors affecting workability?
51. Name some of the properties of tor steel?
52. Name the types of polymer concrete?
53. What are the construction materials used in practice?
54. How are the bricks classified?
55. What are the essential qualities of a good bricks?
56. What are the food properties of a good mortar?
57. What is the use of fiber reinforced concrete?
58. What is a ‘frog’ in a brick?
Unit – 2
1. What are the objectives of foundation?
2. Define foundation?
3. Name the different types of foundation?
4. Distinguish between substructure and superstructure?
5. What are the requirements of a good foundation?
6. Mention the various loads acting on a building?
7. What are the types of foundation?
8. Explain about shallow foundation?
9. Explain about pile foundation?
10. Under which conditions the pile foundations are adapted?
11. Classify the piles based on use?
12. Define bearing capacity of soil?
13. Define safe bearing capacity of soil?
14. What are the ways to improve the bearing capacity of soils?
15. Define closer?
16. What are the types of closer?
17. What are the different types of bonds used in construction practices?
18. Define the term bond and write purpose of bond?
19. Write about Flemish bond with sketch?
20. Differentiate Flemish bond and English bond?
21. Compare stone masonry and brick masonry?
22. Differentiate a beam and a column?
23. Define lintel?
24. What is the length of the lintel usually provided?
25. List out the essential requirements of a good flooring?
26. Define the term slab?
27. List the types of flooring?
28. Define plastering. List the two types of plaster?
29. What are the requirements of a good plaster?
30. Define the term roof?
31. Define shear and volumetric strain?
32. What is poisson’s ratio?
33. State Hooke’s law?
34. Define young’s modulus?
35. Define modulus of rigidity?
36. Define bulk modulus?
37. Define factor of safety?
38. What are the basic components of a bridge?
39. Name the different types of bridges?
40. What is a dam?
41. What are the various purposes of dam?
42. What are upstream and downstream sides of a dam?
43. List the various modes of failure of gravity dams?
44. What is an arch dam?
45. What is a buttress dam?
46. Write the purposes of dam construction across the water stream?
47. Define landscaping?
48. What are the elements of landscaping?
49. What is interior designing?