Geotechnical Engineering - Earth Retaining Structures
GATE Civil Engineering · 2 questions across 2 years (2019-2021) · 5% recurrence rate
Recurrence sparkline
2019–202120192021
Difficulty mix
med 50%
hard 50%
Question types
NAT1
MCQ1
All 2 questions on Geotechnical Engineering - Earth Retaining Structures
2021 Q45
A retaining wall of height 10 m with clay backfill is shown in the figure (not to scale). Weight of the retaining wall is 5000 kN per m acting at 3.3 m from the toe of the retaining wall. The interface friction angle bet...
Hard✓📊
2019 Q15
An earthen dam of height H is made of cohesive soil whose cohesion and unit weight are c and γ, respectively. If the factor of safety against cohesion is Fc, the Taylor's stability number (Sn) is
Med✓