DIRECTIONS: Choose and encircle the
letter of the correct answer.
1. This is the process through which
rocks change or transform due to
stress and heat.
a. Rock Mechanics
b. Rock Deformation
c. Elastic Deformation
d. Physical Properties
EXPLANATION: Rock deformation is a
process of changing/transformation of
rocks due to stress and heat.
2. What method is used for roughly
calculating the above strength
value in the laboratory or on the
field site?
a. Permeability
b. Direct Methods
c. Tension Stress
d. Indirect Methods
EXPLANATION: Indirect Methods – for
determining the above strength value
approximately in the laboratory or at the
field site.
3. A collective nomenclature which
includes all such properties of
rocks that are relevant to
engineering application after their
extraction from natural beds or
without extraction. What is it?
a. Engineering Properties of a Rock
b. Modulus
c. Physical Properties of a Rock
d. Deformation
EXPLANATION: Engineering properties
of rocks is a collective nomenclature
which includes all such properties of
rocks that are relevant to engineering
application after their extraction from
natural beds or without extraction.
4. Rock mechanics is a discipline
that uses the principles of
mechanics to describe
the behavior of rocks which
composes intact rock materials
and rock materials and rock
discontinuities.
a. True
b. False
EXPLANATION: Rock mechanics
is a discipline that uses the principles of
mechanics to describe the behavior of
rocks. Here, the term of rock is in the
scale of engineering. The scale is
generally in the order of between a few
meters to a few thousand meters.
Therefore, the rock considered in rock
mechanics is in fact the rock mass, which
composes intact rock materials and rock
materials and rock discontinuities.
5. Give the 2 direct methods in
Compressive Strength;
1.
2.
EXPLANATION:
Direct Method:
1. Uniaxial Compression Test
2. Tri-axial Compression Test
 6. Strength of rocks comes from its
texture, ___________ and
__________ creep in due to
_________ caused by wedding
and deformation rocks which are
taken from near the earth surface.
a. natural and geological; alteration
b. composition and weakness; properties
c. composition and weakness; alteration
d. strength and economy; qualities
EXPLANATION: Strength of rocks comes
from its texture, composition and weakness
creep in due to alteration caused by wedding
and deformation rocks which are taken from
near the earth surface.
7. Known as “Index Properties”,
which describes the rock material
and helps in classifying them. It
affects the design and
construction in rocks such as
specific gravity, density, porosity
and etc.
a. Physical Properties
b. Confining Pressure
c. Folds
d. Mechanical Properties
EXPLANATION: Physical properties
may be known as “Index Properties”,
which describes the rock material and
helps in classifying them. It affects the
design and construction in rocks such as
specific gravity, density, porosity and etc.
8. What are the two (2) methods
used in testing strength?
a. Uniaxial and Tri-axial Test
b. Compressive and Tensile Strength
c. Direct and Indirect Methods
d. Folds and Joints Methods
EXPLANATION:
There are two methods used in testing
the strength:
1. Direct Methods
2. Indirect Methods
9. According to him, that any
material which is natural,
geological, man-made other than
wise can used in construction
industry, this material must satisfy
the fundamental properties that is
strength and the economy.
a. Dr. M. Masroor Alam
b. Dr. G. Masroon Alam
c. Dr. M. Maroon Alam
d. Dr. G. Masroom Alam
EXPLANATION: According to Dr. M.
Masroor Alam, that any material which is
natural, geological, man-made other than
wise can used in construction industry
this material must satisfy the
fundamental properties that is strength
and the economy.
10. In civil engineering, it involves
foundation, slope and tunnel. In
structural engineering, the design
process generally is as following:
I. Calculate external loading
imposed on the structure
II. Tested for selection as a
material for construction
such as a building stone,
road stone or aggregate for
concrete making.
III. Design the structure and
analyze loading in structure
elements
 IV. Design the structure and very difficult to shape. Is commonly
element and select used in road construction, as aggregate
materials. in concrete production, rubble masonry
V. determine its suitability or works for bridge piers, river walls, and
otherwise as a construction dams.
site for a proposed
engineering project. 12. Mechanical Properties may be known
as Weight Properties as they give
a. II, IV, and V information about the performance of
b. I, III, and V rock materials when subjected to a
particular loading system.
c. I, III, and IV
a. True
d. I, II, and III b. False
EXPLANATION: In civil engineering, it
involves foundation, slope and tunnel. In EXPLANATION: Mechanical Properties
structural engineering, the design may be known as Strength Properties as
process generally is as following: they give information about the
1. Calculate external loading performance of rock materials when
imposed on the structure subjected to a particular loading system.
2. Design the structure and 13. What do you call to the
analyze loading in structure deformation or change of shape a rock
elements body experiences when under differential
3. Design the structure element stress and is proportional to stress?
and select materials.
a. Strain
11. Also known as traps, its
b. Stress
structure is medium to fine-grained and
c. Faults
tight. commonly used in road
construction, as aggregate in concrete d. Porosity
production, rubble masonry works for
bridge piers, river walls, and dams. EXPLANATION:
Strain – Deformation or change of shape
a. Sandstone a rock body experiences when under
b. Gneiss
differential stress. Strain is proportional
c. Basalt
to stress.
d. Marble
14. It is an important measure for
EXPLANATION: BASALT is also known estimate wear of rock drilling and boring
as traps, the structure of basalt is equipment. It also highly influenced by
medium to fine-grained and tight. Basalt the amount of quartz mineral in the rock
stone has good weather resistance, material. Measures are given by several
impermeability to moisture, is very hard tests such as Cerchar Test.
a. Wave Velocity 17. What are the three types of
b. Density faults?
c. Hardness a. Anticline, Syncline, and Domes
d. Abrasivity b. Asymmetrical, Overturned, and
Sheeting
c. Normal, Reverse and Strike-slip
EXPLANATION: Measures the
d. Symmetrical, Asymmetrical and
abrasiveness of a rock materials against
Plunging
other materials. It is an important
measure for estimate wear of rock drilling
EXPLANATION: FAULTS are the
and boring equipment. Abrasivity is
fractures in the crust along which
highly influenced by the amount of quartz
appreciable displacement has occurred,
mineral in the rock material. The higher
on a scale from cm – km. Three types of
quartz content gives higher abrasivity.
faults are: normal fault, reverse/thrust
Abrasivity measures are given by several
fault and strike-slip fault.
tests such as Cerchar Test.
15. Shear stress involves 18. ___________ is a
transverse forces; regions of the material metamorphic rock, famous for its great
moving past each other. strength and durability; widely used both
in the design of single-family homes,
a. True
hotels, and sports centers.
b. False
a. Granite
b. Gneiss
EXPLANATION: Shear stress involves
c. Quartzite
transverse forces; the strain shows up as
d. Marble
opposing blocks or regions of the
material moving past each other.
EXPLANATION: GNEISS is a
metamorphic rock, famous for its great
16. Fractures along which no
strength and durability during
appreciable displacement has occurred.
temperature change; it also has a rough,
non-slippery surface. These qualities of
a. Ductile
the gneiss make it ideal for usage in in
b. Folds
construction, revetment, putting of
c. Faults
flooring and decoration of exterior and
d. Joints
interior spaces. It is widely used both in
the design of single-family homes, villas,
EXPLANATION: JOINTS are fractures
restaurants, and in large-scale
along which no appreciable displacement has
construction, such as hotels and leisure
occurred. Two types of joints are: Columnar
and sports centers.
Joints and Sheeting
 19. Stress is the ______ exerted
per unit area and strain is the physical
change that results in response to that
force.
a. energy
b. power
c. work
d. force

EXPLANATION: Stress is the force

exerted per unit area and strain is the
physical change that results in response
to that force. When the applied stress is
greater than the internal strength of rock,
strain results in the form of deformation
of the rock caused by the stress.

20. It is an effective test method

for assessing mechanical qualities.
a. Shear Box Test
b. Punch Shear Test
c. Point Load Test
d. Shear Test on Rock Cubes

EXPLANATION: Punch Shear Test -

effective test method for assessing
mechanical qualities.