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ANALYSIS OF GATE 2019


Memory Based

Civil Engineering

Engineering Engineering Fluid Mechanics


General Aptitude Mathematics Mechanics 8%
15% 11% 0%
Solid Mechanics
Open channel Flow 3% Material
Transportation 2% Construction
Engineering and Management
11% 0%
Environmental
Engineering
8%

Structural Analysis
Geomatics
5%
Steel Structures Engineering
3% 5%

Reinforced Cement
Concrete Geotechnical
8% Irrigation and Engineering
Hydrology 15%
6%

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CE ANALYSIS-2019_Feb-10_Afternoon

SUBJECT No. of Ques. Level of Total


Topics Asked in Paper(Memory Based)
Ques. Marks
Engineering 1 Marks: 5 Differential equation, Vector calculus,
Moderate 11
Mathematics 2 Marks: 3 Laplace transform, Linear algebra
Engineering 1 Marks: 0
- - 0
Mechanics 2 Marks: 0
1 Marks: 2
Fluid Mechanics Pipe flow, Fluid kinematics Moderate 8
2 Marks: 3
1 Marks: 1
Solid Mechanics Shear stress, Rotational springs Easy 3
2 Marks: 1
Construction 1 Marks: 0
Material and 2 Marks: 0 - - 0
Management
Environmental 1 Marks: 2
Air pollution, Alkalinity disinfection Moderate 8
Engineering 2 Marks: 3
Geomatics 1 Marks: 1 Transverse survey, photographic survey,
Moderate 5
Engineering 2 Marks: 2 Simpson rule
Geotechnical 1 Marks: 5
Permeability Tough 15
Engineering 2 Marks: 5
Irrigation and 1 Marks: 2
Ground Water Technology Moderate 6
Hydrology 2 Marks: 2
Reinforced 1 Marks: 2 Compressive strength of cement, W/C
Moderate 8
Cement Concrete 2 Marks: 3 ratio, Concrete technology
1 Marks: 1
Steel Structures Plate girder Moderate 3
2 Marks:1
Structural 1 Marks: 1
Static indeterminacy, Influence ILD Moderate 5
Analysis 2 Marks:2
Transportation 1 Marks: 3 Traffic engineering, Railway engineering,
Moderate 11
Engineering 2 Marks:4 Pavement
Open channel 1 Marks: 0
Hydraulic pump Moderate 2
Flow 2 Marks:1
1 Marks: 5
General Aptitude Data interpretation, Grammar Moderate 15
2 Marks:5
Total 65 100
Overall paper is moderate level. Compare to last year, this year paper was
Faculty Feedback slightly higher level. Geotechnical question were more, no questions from
engineering mechanics and CMM.

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GATE 2019 Examination* (Memory Based)

Civil Engineering

Test Date: 10-FEB-2019


Test Time: 12.30 AM to 5:30 PM
Subject Name: Civil Engineering

General Aptitude
Q.1 - Q.5 Carry One Mark each.
1. Hima Das was __________ only woman to win __________ gold medal.
(A) The, a
(B) The many
(C) A, many
(D) A, the

2. The growth of ABC motors was in 2017 __________ XYZ motors in 2016.
(A) As of
(B) As that of
(C) As that off
(D) As off

3. In a population survey of ‘2001 – 2011’ the population of city X has increased by X% and
population of city Y has increased by Y% where x>y, if P is the ration of population of city
X to that of Y. What is the percentage increase of population?
( )

( )
( )
( )
( )
( )
( )

4. A

5. A

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Q.6 - Q.10 Carry Two Mark each.


6. A

7. A

8. A

9. A

10. A
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Technical
Q.1 - Q.25 Carry One Mark each.
1. A closed thin walled tube has thickness t, mean enclosed area with in the boundary of the
center line of tube’s thickness and shear stress , torsional moment of resistance T of
the section would be
(A) t
(B) t
(C) t
(D) t

2. A Vehicle is moving on a road of grad at a speed of 20 m/s. Consider the coefficient of


rolling friction nd g m s . On applying brakes to reach speed of 10m/s the
required breaking distance (round off to nearest integer) along the horizontal is __________.

3. Consider the hemi-spherical tank of radius 13m as shown in the figure. What is the volume
of water(in m ) when the depth of water at the centre of the tank is 6m
3m

(A)

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(B) 3
(C)
(D)

4. Structural failures considered in the mechanistic method of bituminous pavement design


are
(A) Fatigue & Shear
(B) Shear & Slippage
(C) Fatigue & Rutting
(D) Rutting & shear

5. The velocity field in a flow system is given by ̂ ( )̂ ̂ . The acceleration


of the fluid at (1, 1, 2) is
(A) Zi+10k
(B) j k̂
(C) j k
(D) i k

6. Two identical pipes C i.e having the same length, same diameter and same moughness are
used to withdraw water from a reservoir . In the 1st case, They are attached in series and
2nd case they are attached in parallel and both are discharging freely into atmosphere.
Neglect all the minor losses and assuming that the friction factor is same in both the case,
The ratio of the discharge in the parallel arrangement to that in the series arrangement
(up to place of decimal ) is_________

7. At the foot of spillway, water flows at a depth of 23cm, with a velocity of 8.1m/s as shown
in figure

H dr ulic jump
spill w

3cm ?
1 Volt ge cross
Volt ge cross

Volt ge Volt
crossge cross
The flow enters as a profile in a long wide rectangular channel with bed slope=1/1300
and n=0.015. A hydraulic jump is formed at a certain distance from the foot of spill way.
Assume g m⁄s Just before the jump the depth of flow, (up to 2 place
decimal)_________

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8. The characteristics compressive strength of concrete required in a project is 25MPa, & the
standard deviation is observed compressive strength expected at site is 4MPa. The
average compressive strength of cubes tested at different W/C ratio using same material
given in the table.
W/C 45 50 55 60
Avg compressive strength 35 25 20 15
The W/C ratio (in % round off to lower integer) used in the mixture is __________

9. Which of the following option contains only primary air pollutants


(A) H
(B)
(C) H o
(D)

10. The Laplace transform of sin h(at) is


( )
s
( )
s
s
( )
s
s
( )
s
[Ans. A]

11. What is curl of the vector filed ̂ ̂ ̂


(A) ̂ ̂ k̂
(B) ̂ k̂
(C) ̂ ̂ k̂
(D) ̂ ̂ k̂
[Ans. B]

12. The following inequality is true for all x close to 0 1


What is the value of lim 1
(A) 1
(B) 0
(C) 2
(D)

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13. An ordinary differential equation is given below ( ln ) . The solution for the above
equation is ( ote k const nt)
(A) k ln
(B) k ln
(C) k e
(D) k e

14. The Euclidean norm length of the vector [ ] is


(A) √
(B) √
(C) √
(D) √

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Q.26 - Q.55 Carry Two Mark each.

26. Chlorine is used as the disinfectant in a municipal water treatment plant at achievers 50%
of disinfection efficiency .Measured in terms of killing the indicator microorganism (E-
coil) in 3-minitues . The minimum time required to achieve 99% disinfection efficiency
would be
(A) 21.93 min
(B) 9.98 min
(C) 11.93 min
(D) 19.93 min

27. Analysis of water sample revealed that sample contains the fallowing species.
o H o l H o l g H o e H . Connect ration of which
of specifies will be required to compute alkalinity
(A) o H H o H o
(B) o H o H H
(C) H H H o H
(D) H H o H

28. A flexible pavement has the following class of loads during a particular hour of the day.
(i) 80 buses with 2-axles(each axle load of 40kN)
(ii) 160 trucks with 2-axis(front and rear axle load of 40kN and 80kN respectively)

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The equivalent standard axle load repetition for this vechicle combination as per
3 would be
(A) 180
(B) 250
(C) 240
(D) 320
29. A railway passes through a horizontal curve section (R=875 m) & L=200m. The allowable
speed on this portion is 100kmph, for cant calculation take gauge distance=1750mm. the
maximum permissible cant will be ?

30. The uniform arrival and uniform service rates observed on an approach road to a
signalized intersection are 20 & 50 vechicles/min respectively. For this signal the red
time=30 sec, effective green time=30 sec & co=60sec. assuming that initially there are no
vehicles in the queue, the average delay per vechicle using the approach road during a
cycle length (in sec, round of two decimal places)_____________

31. When a specimen of M25 concrete is loaded to stress of 12.5 MPa, a strain of is
recorded, if this load is allowed to stand for long time, the strain increases to .
In accordance with 456-2000, considering the long term effects, efficiency Modulus of
concrete will be?

32. The speed density Relationship of highway is given


V he m imum flow ?
if V Veh hr
if V V V mph
V
q Veh hr

33. The Speed density relationship in a grind block section of a highway follows creersh
model. Fi free flow is V and Jam density is , maximum flow observed on this section?
V
( )
( )V
V
( )
V
( )

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34. A camera with a local length of 20cm fitted in an aircraft is used for taking vertical aerial
photographs of a terrain. The average elevation of the Tertian is 1200m above MSL. What
is the height above MSL at which an aircraft must fly in order to get the aerial photographs
at a scale of 18000
(A) 3200m
(B) 2600m
(C) 3000m
(D) 2800m
35. A series of 1 offsets taken from a curved boundary wall to a straight survey line at an
internal of 6m are 1.22, 1.67, 2.04, 2.34, 2.14, 1.87 & 1.15m. the area (in m round off to
two decimal places) bounded by the survey line, curved boundary wall, the first and the
last offsets determined using Simpson’s rule is ___________

36. A WTP treats m of water per day. As a part of treatment process, discrete particles
are required to be settled in a clarifier. A column test indicates that an over flow rate of
1.5meter per hour would produce the desired removal of particles through settling in the
clarifier having a depth of 3m. the volume of required clarifier (in m , up to 1 decimal
place) would be ____________

37. Raw municipal solid waste (MSW) collected from a city contains 70% decomposable
material that can be converted to methane. The water content of the decomposable
material is 35%. An elemental analysis of the decomposable material yields the following
mass%
C: H:O:N: other 44:6:43:0.8:6.2
The methane production of the decomposable material is governed by the following
stoichiometric relation.
H nH o m H co d H atomic weight C=12, H=1, 0=16, N=14. The
mass of methane produced (in grams, round off two decimal places) per kg of raw MSW
will be ____________

38. Consider the reactor shown in figure the flow rate through the reactor is . The
concentration (mg/l) of a compound in the influent and effluent are Co and C respectively.
The compound is degraded in the reactor following the order reaction. The mixing
condition of reactor can be varied such that the reactor becomes either a completely
mixed flow reactor (PFR) the length of reactor can be adjusted in these two mixing
conditions to LCMFR and LPFR while keeping cross of section of the reactor constant.
Assuming steady state and for the value of LCMFR/LPFR (up to decimal place)
is __________

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39. The data from a closed transverse survey PQRS ( run in the clockwise direction) are given
in the table
Line PQ QR RS SP
Included angle (in degree) 88 92 94 89
The closing error for the traverse PQRS (in degree) is

40. Related to durability of concrete consider the following assertion:


(1) As per IS as entrainment to the extent of 3% to 6% is required for concrete
exposed to marine environment.
(2) The equivalent alkali content (in terms of equivalent) for a cement containing
1% and 0.6% O and respectively is approximate 1.4% (rounded one decimal
place)
Which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both assertion nd f lse
(B) is true is f lse
(C) Both ① and ② are true
(D) ① is false and ② is true

41. The inverse of the matrix


3
[ 3 ] is

( ) [ 3 ]

( ) [ ]

( ) [3 ]

( ) [ ]

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42. The probability density function of a continuous random variable distributed uniformly
between X and Y (for Y>X) is
( )
( )
( )

( )

43. For a channel section subjected to a downward vertical shear force at its centroid, which
one of the following represents correct distribution of shear stress in flange and web?
( )

30μ V (t)

( )

30μ V (t)

( )

30μ V (t)

( )

30μ V (t)

44. For a plane stress problem, the state of stress at a point is represented by the stress
element as shown in figure. By how much angle ( indegree) the stress element should be
rotate in order to get the planes of maximum shear stress?

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i ( ) i ( )

θ
i ( ) i ( )

i ( )
i ( )
(A) 13.3 i ( )
(B) 26.6
i ( )
(C) 48.3
(D) 31.7

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