GATE CE 2000 | Definitions and Properties of Soils Question 24 | Geotechnical Engineering

A borrow pit soil has a dry density of 17 kN/m³. How many cubic meters of this soils will be required to construct an embankment of 100 m³ volume with a dry density of 16 kN/m³.

94 m³

106 m³

100 m³

90 m³

GATE CE 1999

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-0.3

Principle involved in the relationship between submerged unit weight and saturated weight of a soil is based on

Equilibrium of floating bodies

Archimede's principle

Stoke's law

Darcy's law

GATE CE 1997

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-0.3

If the porosity of a soil sample is 20%, the void ratio is

0.20

0.80

1.00

0.25

GATE CE 1996

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

-0.3

Which one of the following relations is not correct?

$$\mathrm e=\frac{\mathrm n}{1-\mathrm n}$$

$$\gamma_{sat}=\gamma_w\left[\frac{G+e}{1+e}\right]$$

$$\mathrm n=\frac{\mathrm e}{1-\mathrm e}$$

$$\mathrm e=\frac{\mathrm{wG}}{\mathrm S}$$

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