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M. Tech. Semester – IX
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Highway Materials
(IBMCETE 903)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 Explain the various desirable properties and their

corresponding laboratory test required to judge the
suitability of road aggregates. Write the procedure for
Impact Value test.

2 (a) Describe about the proportioning of aggregates.

(b) Explain aggregate texture and skid resistance.

3 Enumerate various methods for soil classification.

Describe the Indian Standard (IS) method in detail.

4 What do you understand by soil stabilization? Enumerate

various methods used for soil stabilization. Explain in
detail about the mechanical stabilization of soil.

5 Describe about the structure and Rheology of bitumen.

Explain in detail the method of ductility test and
softening point test conducted on bitumen.
6 Explain the Marshall method used for mix design of
bituminous mixes. On what basis optimum binder
content (OBC) is calculated?

7 What are the various factors which influence the mix

design of concrete? Write the procedure for design of
PQC.

8 Write short notes on the following:

(a) Characteristics and uses of fly ash, bottom ash and

pond ash

(b) Sub soil drainage for highways

(c) Modified bitumen

(d) Tests on bituminous mixes

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M. Tech. Semester – I
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity
(MCESE 102)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 Write down the basic equation of elasticity for (i)

Cartesian cordinate (ii) cylindiral coordinates.

2 The state of stress at a particular point relative to the xyz

coordinate systems is given by the stress matrix
 15 10  10
 10 10 0 
  MPa

 10 0 40 


Determine normal stress and the magnitude and direction

of the shear stress on a surface intersecting the point and
parallel to the plane given by the equation.

3 Determine the stress fields that arise from the following

stress function.

(i) Φ = Cy2 (ii) Φ = Ax2 = Bxy + Cy2

(iii) Φ = Ax3 + Bx2y + Cxy2 +Dy3

4 Explain the winkler’s theory regarding polar coordinates

in detail. Also explain the term in the following equation.
 P M  y 
stress    1  
A AR  m R  y 

5 As per the theory of elasticity prove that torsion of

hollow cross section

T = 2Φ1 I1 + IA

6 (a) Define Rayleigh’s methods.

(b) What is the strain energy for a simply supported

beam shown in fig.

7 Explain finite difference method and give derivation of

finite difference equation.

8 Write short notes on any two:

(a) Generalized Hooks Law

(b) Two dimensional Cartesian Coordinates

(c) Plain two stress and plain strain problems

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M. Tech. Semester – I
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Prestressed Concrete
(MCESE 104)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 (a) What are the different advantage of prestressed

concrete.

(b) Enumerate the application of pressfressed concrete

in construction industries.

2 (a) Define prestressing system.

(b) Write down the basic difference between

prestressing and post tensioning.

3 A prestressed concrete beam 200mm wide and 300mm

deep is used over an effective span of 6m to supported an
imposed load of 4Kn/m. The density of concrete is
24KN/m3. At the quartor span of section of beam find the
magnitude of,
 (i) The concentric prestressing force for zero fibre
stress at the soffit when the beam in fully loaded
and

(ii) The eccentric prestressing force located 100mm

from the bottom of the beam which would nullify
the bottom fibre stress due to loading.

4 Define ultimate shear resistance of prestressed concrete

member also describe.

(a) Failure due to web shear cracks

(b) Failure due to flexure shear cracks

5 A cross section of pre stressed concrete beam is

rectangular with a width of 350mm and overall depth of
700mm. The presstressing force of 180KN acts at an
eccentricity of 190mm. If the bending and twisting
moments at the section are 80 and 20 KN respectively,
calculate the maximum permissible tensile stress at the
section.

6 Explain the effect of axial deformation and tertiary

moments in prestressed indetermatate structure. Describe
with neat diagram.
7 (a) Write down the criteria of design of proportion
concrete pipes.

(b) Write down the economic dimensional properation

of presstress circular tanks also show the neat sketch of
shapes of prestressed circular tank.

8 Write short notes on any two:

(a) Steel specification for prestressing

(b) Circular prestressing

(c) Pre-tensioning
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M. Tech. Semester – I, IX
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Ground Improvement Techniques
(MCESE 105/IMBCETE 905)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 (a) What do you mean by ground improvement?

Explain the soil improvement methods?

(b) Explain the concept of compaction piles for in situ

ground improvement.

2 How Vibroflatation techniques are useful in loose sand

improvement? Explain it with neat diagram.

3 What is the concept of accelerated pre consolidation of

clays? How the various types of drains used in soft
clays?

4 Explain the mechanism of reinforcement soil interaction

along with its applications.

5 Check the reinforced earth wall for stability against (a)

sliding (b) overtuming (c) bearing failure as per the given
figure where face BC assumes to be smooth.

Reinforced earth wall and lateral stress acting on BC

6 Why geo synthesis is useful in geotechnical engineering
also explain its functions with neat diagram?

7 (a) Explain the mechanism of lime stabilization. How it

differs from mechanical stabilization techniques?

(b) What are the main problems of soil stabilization

work in road construction?

8 Write short notes on any four:

(a) Cement stabilization

(b) Geo-grids

(c) Stone and lime columns

(d) Compaction and control of soil

(e) Slope stabilization

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M. Tech. Semester – IX
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Pavement Analysis and Design
(IBMCETE 904)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 Compare the different types of pavements. Also compare

the component parts of flexible, rigid and semi rigid
pavement with neat sketch.

2 Explain the IS soil classification. Also explain the

functions and significance of soil sub-grade.

3 List out the various theoretical methods of flexible

pavement design. Also explain one of them in detail.

4 What do you understand by “Rigid Pavement”? Also

explain and analyse the various causes of stress
development in rigid pavement.

5 Explain the various objectives of pavement maintenance

system (PMS). Also explain the concept of Recycling of
Pavements.
6 Explain the Bitumen Bound macadam (BBM) road
construction procedure. Also give the IRC road
specification for BBM road construction works.

7 What is the difference between concrete roads and

reinforced cement concrete roads? Also explain the
construction method (any one of them) detail.

8 Write short notes on (any two):

(a) Skid Resistance

(b) Joints in CC Pavements

(c) Influence of environment on pavement

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M. Tech. Semester – III

End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Disaster Mitigation and Management
(MCESE 301)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 Explain disaster management with process cycle. Also

state in brief the various phases of disaster management?

2 (a) List out the environmental hazards in broad

categories.

(b) What are physical characteristics of Tsunamis,

Mentions its causes and effect with examples?

3 What do you mean by cyclones, describe its various

types also give examples of some recent cyclone in India
and their location?

4 (a) How assessment survey help in prevention of

disaster management?

(b) Explain various aspect of disaster management?

5 Explain the relief measure to disaster affected people.
Also mention the hazard prediction approach in disaster
control along with relevant examples.

6 How the education, training and awareness program play

important role in natural disaster reduction world wide?

7 (a) How the environmental policies and programs in

India are effective in disaster management?

(b) Describe the Ecological planning and sustainable

development approach in our country for the
disaster management and control.

8 Write short notes on any four:

(a) Earthquake and its effect

(b) Volconic eruption

(c) Land use zoning

(d) Role of Panchayat in disaster Mitigation

(e) Safety tips for disaster

(f) Nuclear hazards

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M. Tech. Semester – I, IX
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Statistical and Mathematical Tech.
(MCESE 101/IBMCETE 901)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 (a) Solve by simplex method

min Z  x1  x2  3x3

3 x1  2 x 2  x 3  3
Subject to 2 x1  2 x 2  2 x 3  2 and
x1 , x 3 , x 3  0

(b) Solve graphically :

min Z  2 x1  3 x 2

x1  x 2  3
6 x1  2 x 2  8 and
Subject to x1  5 x 2  4
x1  3, x 2  3. and x1 , x 2  0.

2 (a) Use duality to solve the following LPP.

min z  2 x1  9 x 2  x3

x1  4 x 2  2 x 3  5
Subject to 3 x1  x 2  2 x 3  4 and
x1 , x 2 , x 3  0

(b) Obtain the optimal solution to the following TP in which

the cell entries represent unit transportation cost:

Destination sources D1 D2 D3 Supply

 S1 2 7 4 5

S2 3 3 1 8

S3 5 4 7 7

S4 1 6 2 14

Demand 7 9 18 34

3 (a) There are five jobs to be assigned to five machines and the
associated cost matrix is as below. Determine the optimal
assignment.

Machines
Jobs
I II III IV V

A 11 17 8 16 20

B 9 7 12 6 15

C 13 16 15 12 16

D 21 24 17 28 26

E 14 10 12 11 15

(b) Find the initial BFS of the following transportation

problem (in which the cells contain the unit transportation
cost).
Warehouse factory W1 W2 W3 W4 Factory capacity
F1 19 30 50 10 7
F2 70 30 40 60 9
F3 40 8 70 20 18
Warehouse requirement 5 8 7 14 34
4 (a) Find mean and variance of the Binomial distribution.

(b) Letters are received in an office on each one of 100 days.

Assuming the following data to form a random sample
from a Poisson distribution find the expected frequencies
connect to nearest units. (Give e-4 = 0.0183)

5 (a) Find mean and variance of the Normal distribution.

(b) Out of 800 facilities with 4 children each, how many

families would be expected to have (i) 2boys and 2girls (ii)
atleast 1 boy (iii) at most 2 girls. (Assume equal
probabilities for boys and girls)

6 (a) Fit an exponential curve of the form Y = ab x to be

following data:

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Y 1.0 1.2 1.8 2.5 3.6 4.7 6.6 9.1

(b) In a partially destroyed laboratory, record of an analysis of

correlation data, the following results only are legible.

Variance of X = 9 regression equations :

8x – 10y + 66 = 0, 40x – 18y = 214, what are (i) mean

values of X and Y. (ii) the correlation coefficient between
x and y (iii) the standard deviation of y.
7 (a) obtain the equations of two lines of regression for the
following data:

X 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72

Y 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71

(b) Calcualte the coefficient of correlation for X and Y for the

given data:

X 45 55 56 58 60 65 68 70 75 80 85

Y 56 50 48 60 62 64 65 70 74 82 90

8 (a) The mean weekly sales of soap bars in department stores

was 14.3 bars per stone. After an advertising campaign the
mean weekly sales in 22 stores for a typical week
increased to 153.7 and showed a standard deviation of 17.2
was the advertising campaign successful.

(Give tabulated value of t for 21 df, at 5% level of

significance for right tailed test = 1.72)

(b) The demand for a particular spare part in a factory was

found to vary from day to day in a sample study the
following information was obtained:

Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

No. of Prarts demands 1124 1125 1110 1120 1126 1115

Test the sypothesis that the number of parts demanded
does not depend on the day of the week. (Give: the vaues
of chi-square significance at 5, 6, 7 d.f. are respectively
11.07, 12-59, 14.07 at the 5% level of significance.
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M. Tech. Semester – IX
End-Term Examination, June-July, 2015
Traffic Engineering – I
(IBMCETE 902)
Time: Three Hours
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal
marks.

1 (a) Sketch a line diagram showing traffic engineering

administration in department of transportation and their
responsibility.

(b) What are the different types of resistance to the motion

of a vehicle? Explain in detail.

2 (a) What is the use of studies regarding speed, journey

time and delay studies.

(b) Define the importance of parking surveys and also

describe various methodology of parking survey.

3 (a) Explain in detail the different methods available for

traffic count and their suitability.

(b) What is the necessity of origin destination (OD)

survey.
4 (a) Write down the importance and types of traffic signs
with neat diagrams.

(b) How you can determine the optimum cycle length and
signal setting for an intersection with time signal.

5 (a) Write down the Webster method of signal designing

with suitable example.

(b) Enumerate the requirements of bustop location and bus

bay design.

6 Define the following:

(a) Grade separated intersections

(b) Round about

(c) Provision for cyclist in traffic flow

(d) Traffic movement through time sharing

7 (a) Make a list of different laws of traffic and their role of

conduct.

(b) Explain the rule “keep to the left” and its background
history.

8 Write short notes on any two:

(a) Factor causing road accidents

(b) Road Lighting

(c) Expressway