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'Naothanathinte Surya Thejas' is the biography of
Minimum width of tread without nosing in residential building is
Minimum area of bathroom with water closet
Set back distance required at rear of a building is
The price Rs.100 of an object is increased twice 10% then the present price is
Volume right cone having 20 cm base diameter and 15 cm height
The drafting setting used to on strain the movement of cursor either horizontal or vertical direction is
The capacity of doing work by an artisan or skilled labour in the form of quantity of work per day is known as
The value at the end of the utility period without being dismantled
The term used to denote the gradual reduction in the useful life of the asset is
The total area of floor in between walls and consists of floor of all rooms, verandahs, passages, corridors etc. are known as
Determination of rate of an item of work from quantities of materials and labours are and their cost is
The formal approval by the department concerned of the project proposal for incurring the expenditure on a work initiated is
A bridge having maximum span 6 m is called
The supports provided to the super structure of the bridge at the abutments and piers allowing free longitudinal or angular movements to the main girders or trusses of bridge
Upstream nose of a bridge pier shaped for easy and smooth flow of water through it is known as
Paved surface used for landing and take-off of aircraft is known as
Station which are meant only for the control of the track is called
Arrangement to divert train from one track to another is known as
The pavement which can resist tensile stresses and having very little resistance to deformation under the wheel load
It is a safety island and serves the dual purpose of affording the protection to the pedestrians and segregating the traffic into the proper channel
The solution of bitumen, asphalt or coal tar in solvents is
It is defined as the slope of the line joining the crown and the edge of the surface
Canal normally used for diversion or flood water of river is
The area of the land which drain into the stream of reservoir is called
The amount of water stored in river channel without any artificial storage is known as the
The relation between the area irrigated and the quantity of water used is expressed as
The crops which cannot normally be grown without irrigation water are called
An embankment protected on all sides by stone or concrete block, built at right angle to the axis of the weir separation of the weir and the under sluices
It is the overflow portion of dam, over which surplus discharge flow from the reservoir to the down stream
The permeable formation having structure which permits appreciable quantity of water to move through them under ordinary field condition
It is defined as the fall of moisture from the atmosphere to the earth surface in any form
I is the ratio of inertia force to the gravity force
It is a tank is also provided just on the upstream of the power to control the pressure variation and eliminate the effect of water hammer
It is a velocity at which the flow changes laminar flow to the turbulent flow
It is an instrument to determine the velocity at required point in the flowing stream
A flow in which the velocities of liquid particles at all section of the pipe or channel are equal is called
When a body is fully immersed in water, the point through which the resultant pressure act is known as
The tendency of a material to fracture without appreciable deformation is called
Maximum deflection at free end of a cantilever of span ‘l under a uniformly distributed load of 'w' per unit length is given by
A fixed beam of span 'L' is loaded with central point load 'W'. The BM at centre will be
Euler's crippling load for a column of length ‘with both ends fixed is
A circular column of diameter 'd' under any load will have compressive stress throughout the section of the load act within concentric circle known as core, of diameter
Modulus of section 'z' of hollow circular section with external diameter 'D' and internal diameter 'd' will be
The shear stress in a circular shaft of radius 'r' subjected to torsion, is maximum at a point
A simply supported beam of span 'l' carries a uniformly distributed load 'w' per unit length, the maximum BM at the midpoint will be
The maximum energy stored at elastic limit of a material is known as
The ratio of lateral strain to axial strain is a constant for a homogeneous material
To minimize the wind forces on the roof, the slope of the roof in degrees should not exceed
The member of a roof truss subjected to transverse load and rest on rafters are known as