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Created: 2025/11/01 12:51
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| Check | Question                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Years Appeared |
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|       | Present a classification chart listing various inorganic soil deposits.                                                                                                                                                          | 2023, 2024     |
|       | Geotechnical Engineers are much more concerned with the shear strength of soil - Explain                                                                                                                                         | 2023           |
|       | Draw typical shear stress - shear strain diagram of soil and indicate yield strength, peak strength, ultimate strength, critical strength and residual strength                                                                  | 2023           |
|       | Derive an expression for shrinkage limit of sol involving specific gravity of soil solids                                                                                                                                        | 2023           |
|       | Describe various types of chemical weather responsible for the formation of soil from different rocks.                                                                                                                           | 2023           |
|       | Classify soil as per USCS                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 2023           |
|       | Determine consistency index and comment on its stiffness                                                                                                                                                                         | 2023           |
|       | Undrained triaxial compression test - draw Mohr's circle diagram and find shear strength parameters                                                                                                                              | 2023, 2024     |
|       | Classify as per AASHTO system and comment on suitability for road pavement subgrade                                                                                                                                              | 2023, 2024     |
|       | Drained triaxial compression test - find the effective angle of shearing resistance and approximate inclination of failure plane. Draw and use Mohr's circle diagram. Find equation of failure envelope.                         | 2023, 2024     |
|       | Vane shear test - find the shear strength of clay. What type of triaxial shear test would give the same value of shear strength, if a perfectly undisturbed sample could be obtained?                                            | 2023, 2024     |
|       | Draw and explain plasticity chart as used in USCS                                                                                                                                                                                | 2024           |
|       | Draw a Mohr's circle diagram to represent the failure stress conditions of a soil specimen during unconfined compression test and hence show that the cohession param of the soil is half of the unconfined compressive strenght | 2024           |
|       | Draw and explain typical shear stress and volume change relationship curves with shear displacement for the cases of sandy soils having various states of density.                                                               | 2024           |
|       | State the advantages and limitations of direct shear test.                                                                                                                                                                       | 2024           |
|       | Consolidated undrained triaxial tests - plot effective stress failure envelope and write down the equation for the failure envelope                                                                                              | 2024           |
|       | Liquid limit test using cone penetration apparatus - determine liquid limit and comment on compressibility                                                                                                                       | 2024           |