Basic Civil Engineering June 2003 Question Paper

1. (a) List out laboratory test to find suitability of bricks or stones, Give procedure and two important test for the same, giving standard value?
  (b) Discuss importance of the following :
    (i) Curing for cement concrete
    (ii) Proportioning of concrete
    (iii) Prestressed concrete over R.C.C
    (iv) Water cement ratio
2. (a) What are various types of foundations commonly used for building construction? Explain Grillage foundation with neat sketch giving condition for its suitability?
  (b) Differentiate between the following:
    (i) Plastering and Pointing
    (ii) Load bearing walls and Partition wall
    (iii) Solid and hollow concrete blocks
    (iv) Collapsible doors and Resolving doors
3. (a) How will you determine distance between two inaccesible point by compass survey or plane table survey?
  (b) What is local attraction?
4. What is Ranging? Explain reciprocal ranging with neat sketch.
5. (a) What are contours? How are they obtained for a given area? Give important characteristics of contours.
  (b) What is IS Codes? Discuss their importance giving atleast three examples of code commonly used for building construction.
6. What is Remote Sensing? Discuss the application in surveying?
7. What is EDM Method? How is it better that conventional methods?
8. Write notes on any four of the following:
  (i) Plane Surveying
  (ii) Geodetic Surveying
  (iii) Dampness
  (iv) English Bond
  (v) Flemish Bond

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