List of top Civil Engineering Questions

The slurry from a biogas plant is used as a
The maximum ruling gradient in a rolling terrain according to IRC can be
Greenhouse effect is considered to be due to the increased levels of
Considering the four common air pollutants found in urban environment -- NO, SO\(_2\), Soot and O\(_3\), which one of them is the secondary pollutant?
Under normal conditions, the percentage of BOD removal during primary treatment is about
Separation of solid wastes of different densities is done by
Heating of solid wastes in an oxygen free atmosphere is called
Which kind of light energy is effectively absorbed by \(\mathrm{CO_2}\) in the lower boundary of the Troposphere?
The hydraulic mean radius of a circular sewer of diameter \(D\) is given by
What type of canal is aligned along the natural watershed line?
Aerobic biochemical treatment of sewage effluent is essentially a process of
Hydraulic jump is
What type of dam is constructed using the hydraulic fill method?
Total area of land in the irrigation boundary of a project (including the zones which can be cultivated and which cannot be cultivated) is known as
The technical term used to relate the volume of water and the area of crop it matures is
Pressure inside the casing of an impulse turbine is
The ratio of the weight of water consumed from various sources by a plant in order to produce one unit weight of plant above the root zone is called
Quick sand condition occurs when
The failure of the bottom of a deep excavation in sand due to the lowering of the water level inside relative to the outside is due to the phenomenon of
What is the non-dimensional number that results when the ratio of inertia force to gravity force is considered?
The type of flow, if \(\dfrac{\partial v}{\partial s}=0\), is
What is the value of the included angle between two adjacent sides of the absolute best hydraulic trapezoidal open channel?
Flow over a spillway of a dam is to be treated as
A clay deposit suffers a total settlement of \(4\,\mathrm{cm}\) with one-way drainage. With two-way drainage, it suffers a total settlement of
The best method for compaction of cohesion-less soils is