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GATE CE 2024 Set 2
Numerical
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A homogeneous earth dam has a maximum water head difference of 15 m between the upstream and downstream sides. A flownet was drawn with the number of potential drops as 10 and the average length of the element as 3 m. Specific gravity of the soil is 2.65. For a factor of safety of 2.0 against piping failure, void ratio of the soil is __________ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).

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GATE CE 2024 Set 2
Numerical
+2
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The in-situ percentage of voids of a sand deposit is 50%. The maximum and minimum densities of sand determined from the laboratory tests are 1.8 g/cm3 and 1.3 g/cm3, respectively. Assume the specific gravity of sand as 2.7.

The relative density index of the in-situ sand is ______________ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).

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GATE CE 2024 Set 2
Numerical
+2
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A drained triaxial test was conducted on a saturated sand specimen using a stress-path triaxial testing system. The specimen failed when the axial stress reached a value of 100 kN/m2 from an initial confining pressure of 300 kN/m2.

The angle of shearing plane (in degrees) with respect to horizontal is ______________ (rounded off to the nearest integer).

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GATE CE 2024 Set 2
Numerical
+2
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A storm with a recorded precipitation of 11.0 cm, as shown in the table, produced a direct run-off of 6.0 cm.

Time from start (hours) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Recorded cumulative precipitation (cm) 0.5 1.5 3.1 5.5 7.3 8.9 10.2 11.0

The Ø-index of this storm is ______________ cm/hr (rounded off to 2 decimal places).

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