The piles driven in low bearing capacity soil which does not rest on hard rock but bears the coming load due to side resistance is called ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The field capacity is the amount of water retained by a saturated soil mass after being acted by gravity. The amount of water required to bring the soil moisture content of that soil up to field capacity is called__________________?

   A. Soil-moisture deficiency
   B. Field-moisture deficiency
   C. Equivalent-moisture deficiency
   D. a and b are correct

2. The field capacity is the water retained by a saturated soil after free drainage of surplus water to the ground water table but the water retained by a saturated soil after being centrifuged by a centrifugal force of 1000 times that of gravity is called________________?

   A. Soil moisture
   B. Equivalent moisture
   C. Field moisture
   D. Available moisture

3. The law that states that the discharge of sub-soil water is directly proportional to the loss of head and the area of soil sample and inversely proportional to to the length of soil sample ___________________?

   A. Archimed’s principle
   B. Darcy’s law
   C. Permeability law
   D. Thiem’s law

4. The minimum moisture content at which a water drop if placed on a smooth surface of soil will not be absorbed immediately by the soil is called __________________?

   A. Soil moisture content
   B. Moisture content
   C. Soil saturation
   D. All are correct

5. On relative basis, when one soil is eroded as compared to other soil under same conditions, this property is called __________________?

   A. Compact ability
   B. Erodibility
   C. Viscosity
   D. All are correct

6. Infiltration capacity curve is the graphical representation, as to how the infiltration capacity varies with time after rainfall this curve was represented by ____________________?

   A. Darcy
   B. Horton
   C. Lacy
   D. Kennedy

7. The soil which are formed due to the weathering effects particularly by movement of water and are high permeable are called _________________?

   A. Alluvial soils
   B. Non-alluvial soils
   C. Impervious soils
   D. Semi-impervious soils

8. A water rise takes place on down stream of sloping glacis, when a stream of water moving with high velocity and low depth strikes another stream of flow moving with low velocity and high depth, such breakage in water surface is called______________?

   A. Water wave
   B. Water tide
   C. Hydraulic jump
   D. Afflux

9. A mine or tunnel for collecting seepage water in rock or dam is called ____________________?

   A. Water tunnel
   B. Seepage gallery
   C. Seepage tunnel
   D. Seepage Drain

10. In the initial stage of rainfall, when soil moisture available in the root zone is very low, the rate of infiltration ?

    A. Increases
    B. Reduces
    C. remain stagnant
    D. Normal