Q. A masonry dam may fail due to

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Q. In order to prevent crushing of masonry at the base of the dam, the maximum stress should be __________ the permissible stress of the soil.

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Q. When a body is subjected to two equal and opposite pushes, as a result of which the body tends to reduce its length, the stress and strain induced is compressive.

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Q. Strain energy is the

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Q. A vertical column has two moments of inertia (i.e. Ixx and Iyy ). The column will tend to buckle in the direction of the

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Q. The neutral axis of the cross-section a beam is that axis at which the bending stress is

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Q. Euler's formula holds good only for

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Q. The object of caulking in a riveted joint is to make the joint

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Q. The extremeties of any diameter on Mohr's circle represent

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Q. Two shafts 'A' and 'B' are made of same material. The shaft 'A' is solid and has diameter D. The shaft 'B' is hollow with outer diameter D and inner diameter D/2. The strength of hollow shaft in torsion is __________ as that of solid shaft.

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Q. The bending moment of a cantilever beam of length l and carrying a gradually varying load from zero at free end and w per unit length at the fixed end is __________ at the fixed end.

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Q. In a cantilever beam of length l subjected to a uniformly distributed load of w per unit length, the maximum deflection lies at the fixed end.

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Q. A lap joint is always in __________ shear.

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Q. The elongation of a conical bar under its own weight is __________ that of prismatic bar of the same length.

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Q. When the shear force diagram is a parabolic curve between two points, it indicates that there is a

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Q. The efficiency of a riveted joint is the ratio of the strength of the joint to the strength of the solid plate.

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Q. According to Euler's column theory, the crippling load for a column of length (l) with one end fixed and the other end free is __________ the crippling load for a similar column hinged at both the ends.

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Q. If percentage reduction in area of a certain specimen made of material 'A' under tensile test is 60% and the percentage reduction in area of a specimen with same dimensions made of material 'B' is 40%, then

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Q. The shear force diagram for a simply supported beam carrying a uniformly distributed load of w per unit length, consists of

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Q. A body is subjected to two normal stresses 20 kN/m² (tensile) and 10 kN/m² (compressive) acting perpendicular to each other. The maximum shear stress is

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