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Previous Year Question Paper

BT-204 (GS) – Basic Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

December 2023COMMONSEMESTER-1
December 2023
Max Marks: 70
Duration: 3 Hours
Instructions:

Attempt any five questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

Q.1
a)Unit 3

What are the contour lines and explain its various properties?

b)Unit 5

What do you understand by the term moment of inertia and radius of gyration?

Q.2
a)Unit 1/3/2/4

Write short notes on any four:

i) Shallow foundation

ii) Survey stations

iii) Indian Remote Sensing Satellite

iv) Geodetic surveying

v) Free body diagram

b)Unit 1

What is the workability of concrete? Explain those factors that affecting the workability of concrete.

Q.3
a)Unit 1

Explain nominal and design mix concrete in details.

b)Unit 3

What are the principle and applications of the remote sensing in the Civil Engineering?

Q.4
a)Unit 5

Draw the shear force and bending moment diagram for simply supported beam, which carries a uniformly varying load of 15 kN/m and a point load of 25 KN on its center having span of 6m.

b)Unit 1

Define any two-field test; those are conducted on cement and sand.

Q.5
a)Unit 1

What is the composition of cement? Explain in detail.

b)Unit 4/1

Define any four:

i) Law of machine

ii) Initial and final setting time of cement

iii) Efflorescence

iv) Curing of concrete

v) Plastering and pointing

Q.6
a)Unit 2

What is the local attraction in surveying? How is it detected at any survey station?

b)Unit 1

What are the various types of doors and windows used in the building construction?

Q.7
a)Unit 5

Define and derive an expression for parallel axis theorem.

b)Unit 5

Determine the moment of inertia of the given plane lamina about its centroidal axis as shown in the figure below.

Q.8
a)Unit 2/4/1

Write short notes on any four:

i) Magnetic declination

ii) Bow's notation

iii) Plane tables

iv) D-Alembert's principle

v) Types of staircase

b)Unit 5

What do you understand by support reactions and its type? Explain shear force and bending moment for a cantilever beam.