Quiz  /  Earthquake Engineering Gate & PSU MCQ Questions With Answers

  • 1. 
    Structure of wood can be divided into the following layers. You may choose more than one option.

  • Bark & Bast
  • Cambium
  • Sap & heart wood
  • Pith/Medulla
  • All Of above

  • 2. 
    Choose the common types of steel used in construction

  • High Yield Steel
  • Mild Yield Steel
  • Soft Yield Steel
  • Both A & B

  • 3. 
    Select some of the advantages of steel as construction material

  • High ductility - Steel can undergo large plastic deformation before failure
  • Highly suitable for prefabrication and mass production
  • Steel can be reused after a structure is disassembled
  • All Of above

  • 4. 
    Timber is a traditional material used on Malaysia and can be divided into two (2) categories which are:

  • Hardwood and Softwood
  • Heart-wood and Self-wood
  • Heat-wood and Cool-wood
  • Hand-wood and Cream-wood

  • 5. 
    Choose the correct types of Portland Cement

  • Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC)
  • Low Heat Portland Cement (LHPC)
  • Sulphate – Resistance Portland Cement (SRPC)
  • All Of above

  • 6. 
    In order to produce concrete, select the correct combination of proportionate materials required

  • Cement
  • Fine Aggregate
  • Course Aggregate
  • Water
  • All Of above

  • 7. 
    Concrete can handle the higher compression stresses as compared to tension

  • False
  • True

  • 8. 
    Mortar is a mixture of ________and ________ when mixed with _____________

  • cement, sand, water
  • sand, gravel, water
  • cement, concrete, water

  • 9. 
    Select some of the advantages of using concrete as construction materials

  • Concrete expands and contracts with the changes in temperature.
  • Easy to disintegrate by alkali and sulfate attack
  • Needs another material to reinforce it against excessive shear and tension
  • Lack of ductility, disadvantageous with respect to earthquake resistant design.
  • All Of above

  • 10. 
    A mixture of cement, sand, ________ and water is known as concrete

  • gravel
  • mortar
  • clay

  • 11. 
    It caused the loose on soft soils which will affect its bearing capacity.

  • Earthquake
  • Distress of soil
  • Liquefaction
  • Excitation

  • 12. 
    This level of ground motion has been taken as being an effective peak ground acceleration of 0.4g.

  • Zone 1
  • Zone 2
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 3

  • 13. 
    It has an average shear wave velocity of less than 180 meters per second

  • soft soil
  • stiff soil
  • rock
  • soft rock

  • 14. 
    A description of seismic source which has a maximum moment magnitude of 6.8

  • Faults that are capable of producing large magnitude events
  • It has a high rate of activity
  • It has a low rate of activity
  • None of the 3 choices

  • 15. 
    As it was observed, in a cluster of buildings with the same level, shallow rock has less damaged than deep soils

  • True
  • False
  • No relation

  • 16. 
    Site coefficients factor of medium stiff to stiff where the depth is not greater than 60.96 meters

  • 1.0
  • 1.2
  • 1.5
  • 2.0

  • 17. 
    In the Philippines, this book was adopted for the provisions on design of earthquake resistant structures.

  • NSCP
  • UBC
  • Both NSCP and UBC

  • 18. 
    A part of structure where all the loads are transmitted here.

  • Column
  • Beams
  • Earth or underlying soil or roks
  • Foundation

  • 19. 
    It has an average shear wave velocity of 180 to 360 meters per second

  • soft rock
  • rock
  • stiff soil
  • soft soil

  • 20. 
    The types of soils requiring site-specific evaluation in Soil Profile Type SF

  • very low plasticity clays
  • partially decayed vegetation
  • Plasticity Index of 75 for the depth greater that 25 feet
  • low sensitive clays
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