Pick up the correct statement from the following: (A) The permeability of the coarse-grained soils may be reduced by grouting (B) The process of injecting fluids (i.e. grouts) into the pores space of the soil is called grouting (C) The grouting increases the soil strength (D) All the above

Pick up the correct statement from the following:
(A) The permeability of the coarse-grained soils may be reduced by grouting
(B) The process of injecting fluids (i.e. grouts) into the pores space of the soil is called grouting
(C) The grouting increases the soil strength
(D) All the above
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Answer: Option D
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Last Answer : Answer: Option A

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Last Answer : Answer: Option D

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Last Answer : Answer: Option A

For better strength and stability, the fine grained soils and coarse grained soils are compacted respectively as (A) Dry of OMC and wet of OMC (B) Wet of OMC and dry of OMC (C) Wet of OMC and wet of OMC (D) Dry of OMC and dry of OMC where OMC is optimum moisture content

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Pick up the correct statement about silt soil from the following: (A) The silt soil has particle size from 0.02 mm to 0.06 mm (B) In organic fine grained silt soil possesses no plasticity (C) The least plastic type normally consists of more or less equidimensional grains of quartz (D) All the above

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Last Answer : Answer: Option D

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Last Answer : (D) All the above

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Last Answer : (D) All the above

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Last Answer : (C) In case of a 1 - 2 shell and tube heat exchanger, the LMTD correction factor value increases sharply, when a temperature cross occurs

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Last Answer : (c) Bt is stomach poison; it changes the permeability of stomach due to generation of pores in alkaline environment of stomach

Piping in a soil mass is a) Erosion of subsoil by the high velocities of flow of water through it when such velocities exceed a certain limit* b) Caused due to very low exit gradient c) Due to continuous passage of water through a series of well connected pores d) Due to loss of the strength of cohesion less soil because of upward flow of of water

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