THE MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSIry OF BARODA

VADODARA
Ph. D. ENTRANCE TEST (PET) - loth FEBRUARY 2013
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Part - B
Note : This paper contains FIFTY(50) multiple-choice questions. Each Question carries two (2) marks.

1. The path traced by a single particle of smoke 7. Time of concentration is

issuing from a cigarette is a A) The time taken for precipitation
A) Stream line B) Duration of rainfall
B) Flow line C) Time taken for all the runoff to reach the
C) Path line drain

D) Streak line D) Time taken for the storm water to travel

from the most remote point to the drain
2. Navier-Stokes equations are useful in the
analysis of
The soil transported by running water is

A) Turbulent flows called

B) Vortex flows A) Aeolian soil

C) Viscous flows B) Marine soil
D) Rotationalflows C) Alluvialsoil
D) Lacustrine oil
3. lnundation canals are
A) Perennialcanals
From a nozzle exposed to atmosphere, the
liquid jet traverses
B) The canals which have water only at the
time of floods A) a straight line

c) Constructed to inundate the rural areas

B) a parabolic path
D) Very costly C) a circular path
D) an elliptical path

4. A cross regulator
A) Controls the water level in the parent 10. A 10O-year flood is:
canal
A) one which will occur after every 100
years
B) Controls the silt entry in the off-taking
canal B) one which will occur on an average once
in 100 years
C) Shuts out the river floods
D) Controls the silt entry in the parent canal C) one which can never occur twice in
hundred years

5. A canal escape is a structure built for

D) one which cannot occur next year

A) Disposing of surplus canal water

B) Removing the silt in the canal 11. A beam simply supported at ends is
subjected to load. The point of contra flexure
C) Raising water level
is located where
D) Regulating flow
A) Shear force is zero
6. The specific weight of water in S.l. units is
B) Bending moment is zero
A) 9.81 gm C) Shear force is maximum
D) Axialthrust is zero
B) 981 gm
C) 9.81 kN/m3
D) 9.81 X 103 kN/m2

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 12.A reinforced concrete beam is considered as 17. Pile caps are used on a group of piles to
made of A) lncrease the load bearing capacity of
A) Homogeneous material each pile
B) Heterogeneous material B) Protect the piles from lateral
C) Composite material displacement
D) lsotropic material C) Protect in case of offshore structure
D) Spread the vertical and horizontal loads
13. Hydraulic gradient line (H.G.L) represents the to allthe piles
sum of
A) Pressure head and kinetic head 18.The function of an expansion joint in rigid
B) Kinetic head and datum head pavements is to
C) Pressure head, kinetic head and datum A) Relieve warping stresses
head B) Relieve shrinkage stresses
D) Pressure head and datum head. C) Resist stresses due to expansion
D) Allow free expansion
14.|f L is depth of water in metres, B is number
of days of base period and D is the duty in 19. Which of the following represents a carpet of
hectares/cumec, the relationship which holds sand-bitumen mix without coarse
good, is aggregates?
A) A=48.64D A) Mastic asphalt
B B) Sheet asphalt
B) B=48.64 C) Bituminous carpet
D D) Bituminous concrete
C)D=48.64
B 20. When the path travelled along the road
D)a = 8.648 surface is more than the circumferential
D movement of the wheels due to rotation, then
it results in
15. Model analysis of free surface flows are A) Slipping
based on B) Skidding
A) Reynold number C) Turning
B) Froude number D) Revolving
C) Mach number
D) Euler number 21. For sandy soils, most common method of
stabilization is
16. Negative skin friction in a soil is considered A) Soil cement stabilization
when the pile is constructed through a B) Mechanical stabilization
A) Fillmaterial C) Soil lime stabilization
B) Dense coarse sand D) Soil bitumen stabilization
C) Over consolidated stiff clay
D) Densefinesand

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 22.ln a bituminous pavement, alligator cracking 28. Generally purlins are placed at the panel
is mainly due to points so as to avoid
A) lnadequate wearing course A) Axialforce in rafter
B) lnadequate thickness of sib-base course B) Shear force in rafter
of pavement C) Deflection of rafter
C) Use of excessive bituminous material D) Bending moment in rafter
D) Fatigue arising from repeated stress
applications 29. Diagonaltension in beam
A) ls maximum at neutral axis
23. Maximum number of omitted measurements B) Decreases below the neutral axis and
that can be calculated from latitudes and increases above the neutral axis
departures of a closed traverse is C) lncreases below the neutral axis and
A) One decreases above the neutral axis
B) Two D) Remains same
C) Three
D) Four 30. ln the limit state design of pre-stressed
concrete structures, strain distribution is

24. Different grades in roads are joined together assumed to be

bya A) Linear
A) Compound curve B) Non-linear
B) Reverse curve C) Parabolic
C) Verticalcurve D) Parabolic and rectangular
D) Transition curve
31. Minimum tension steel in RC beam needs to
25. Cubic parabola is a tYPe of be provided to
A) Compound curve A) Prevent sudden failure
B) Simple curve B) Arrest crack width
C) Reverse curve C) Controlexcessivedeflection
D) Transition curve D) Prevent surface hair cracks

26. Which one of the following is the mode of 32. Characteristic strength of concrete is
failure in a fillet weld material? A)Higher than average cube strength
A) Tension B)Lower than average cube strength
B) Shear C) The same as the average cube strength
C) Bearing D) Higher than 90 % of the average cube
D) Crushing strength

27. Buckling load in a steel column is 33. The effect of refraction is to make the object
A) Related to length appear
B) Directly proportionalto slenderness ratio A) Lower than theY reallY are
C) lnversely proportional to slenderness B) Higher than theY reallY are
ratio C) Nearer than the distance at which they
D) Non-linearity of the slenderness ratio really are
D) Distorted

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 40. The eigen values of a square symmetric
34. The process of forming the image of matrix are always
object in the plane of cross wires is called A) Positive
A) Removing the parallax B) Realand imaginary
B) Focussing the eye-piece C) Negative
C) Adjusting the cross-wire D) Real
D) Focussing the object
41. Rank of the following matrix is
35. The longest chain line passing through tl11
centre of the area is known as A)4
A) Base line B)2
B) Tie line c)1
C) Check line D)0
D) Plumb line
42. The differential equation

36. A soil having particles of nearly same size is

known as
ff+ tinx ** r"' = sinhx
A) First order and linear
A) Wellgraded B) First order and non-linear
B) Uniformly graded c) Second order and linear
C) Poorly graded D) Second order and non-linear
D) Gap graded
43. The probability that it will rain today is 0.5,
37. The shrinkage index is equalto The probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.6.
A) Liquid limit- plastic limit The probability that it will rain either today or
B) Liquid limit - shrinkage timit tomorrow is 0.7. what is the probabitity that it
C) Plastic limit - liquid timit will rain today and tomorrow?
D) Plastic limit - shrinkage limit A) 0.3
B) 0.25
38. Aeration of water is done mainly to: c) 0.35
A) Remove bacteria D) 0.4
B) Remove odour
C) Remove turbidity 44.The probability that a number selected at
D) Remove hardness random between '100 and 999 (both inclusive)
will not contain the digit 7 is
39. The system of equations L6
A)
25
2x+ 4y = 10
5x + 10y = 25 has B) (*)'
A) no unique solution 27
c) 7S
B) only one solution 18
c) only two solutions D)
2S

D) infinite solutions

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 45. The probability that two friends
share the
same birth_month is
A)!
,6
B)1
,L2
c)1
' L44

D)1
'24

46. Standard deviation for7,g,11, 13, 1S is

A) 2.4
B) 2.5
c) 2.7
D) 2.8

47.The ratio of the volume of voids to the

volume
of soil solids in a given soil mass, is
known
A) Porosity
B) Specific gravity
C) Void ratio
D) Water content
48.lf a function is continuous at a point, then
its
first derivative
A) may or may not exist
B) exists always
C) willnot exist
D) has a unique vatue
49. Side face reinforcement shalt be provided
in
the beam when depth of the web in a beam
exceeds
A) 50cm
B) 75 cm
C) 100cm
D) 120cm

50. The degree of the saturation for saturated

soit
is
A) o.25
B) 0.5
c) 0.75
D)1
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