GATE 2017 CE (CE2) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2017 CE (CE2) with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – The event would have been successful if you able to come.
- Question 2 – “There was no doubt that their work was thorough.” Which word is closest in meaning to thorough?
- Question 3 – Four cards lie on a table, each with a number on one side and a colour on the other. Visible faces are 2, 3, red and blue. Proposition: If a card has…
- Question 4 – Find x when 81(16/25)x+2(3/5)2x+4=144.
- Question 5 – Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability that the product of the numbers on their top faces is a perfect square is .
- Question 6 – Bhaichung observes people entering and leaving a car-service centre with a single service window. People invariably come out in the order they went…
- Question 7 – A map shows elevations of Darjeeling, Gangtok, Kalimpong, Pelling and Siliguri. Kalimpong is below Gangtok; Pelling is below Gangtok but above…
- Question 8 – P, Q, R, S, T and U sit around a circular table. R is two places to the right of Q. P is three places to the left of R. S sits opposite U. If P and U…
- Question 9 – Budhan covers 19 km in 2 hours, cycling one fourth of the time and walking the rest. Next day he covers 26 km in 2 hours, cycling half the time and…
- Question 10 – Each point on the graph denotes a lift halt lasting 1 minute during a one-hour period. Consider: (i) The lift never moves directly from one non-ground…
- Question 11 – Consider 3x 1+2x 2=c 1 and 4x 1+x 2=c 2, where c 1,c 2 are constants. The characteristic equation of the coefficient matrix is .
- Question 12 – Let w=f(x,y), where x and y are functions of t. According to the chain rule, dw/dt equals .
- Question 13 – The scope of construction work is well defined with all drawings, specifications, quantities and estimates. Which contract would be most preferred?
- Question 14 – Let G be soil-solids specific gravity, w water content, w unit weight of water and d dry unit weight of soil. The zero-air-voids line in a compaction…
- Question 15 – Consider pore-pressure parameters A and B: P. A always lies between 0 and 1.0. Q. A can be less than 0 or greater than 1.0. R. B always lies between 0…
- Question 16 – A rigid retaining wall has partially submerged cohesionless backfill with surcharge. Which diagram most closely represents Rankine active…
- Question 17 – A centrifugal pump has impeller speed N rpm, discharge Q m³/s and total head H m. Its specific speed is .
- Question 18 – According to the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000 of India referred to in this paper, the daytime residential-zone noise limit in…
- Question 19 – Elevation and temperature observations are (10 m, 15.5°C), (60 m, 15.0°C) and (130 m, 14.3°C). The atmosphere is classified as .
- Question 20 – The most important species involved in organic-matter degradation in the activated-sludge process are .
- Question 21 – For a broad-gauge railway on a horizontal curve of radius R m, the equilibrium cant e for speed V km/h is .
- Question 22 – Roundabout safety and efficiency can be increased, respectively, by .
- Question 23 – The orientation method used when a plane table occupies a point not yet located on the map is .
- Question 24 – If axial and shear deformations in the frame members shown are negligible, the reduction in kinematic indeterminacy is .
- Question 25 – Characteristic strength is defined here as the strength below which not more than 50% of test results are expected to fall. With standard deviation 4…
- Question 26 – A 10 mm × 10 mm element is in plane strain. Its exaggerated deformed shape is shown. If engineering shear strain xy=0.001k, then k is .
- Question 27 – A 0.3 m × 0.3 m plate-load test on clay gives ultimate bearing capacity 180 kPa. The ultimate bearing capacity of a 2 m wide footing is kPa.
- Question 28 – Project completion time is normally distributed with mean 200 days and standard deviation 6.1 days. The maximum completion time for 95% probability is…
- Question 29 – The divergence of V=x2 i+2y3 j+z4 k at (1,2,3) is .
- Question 30 – A fair coin is tossed three times and gives heads each time. The probability that the next toss gives heads, to one decimal place, is .
- Question 31 – A sheet pile penetrates 12 m into a homogeneous isotropic soil with hydraulic conductivity 10-6 m/s. Head difference across the pile is 4 m. The flow…
- Question 32 – For a parabolic vertical curve, the horizontal distance between the point of vertical intersection and point of vertical curvature is 100 m. The curve…
- Question 33 – Rainfall intensity is 3.5 cm/h and φ-index is 1.5 cm/h. Effective rainfall intensity is cm/h.
- Question 34 – Horton infiltration is f=c 1+c 2e-kt. Initial and long-term rates are 200 and 25 mm/h. At t = 1 h the rate is 90 mm/h. The decay constant k, to two…
- Question 35 – A hill road has gradient 6% and horizontal-curve radius 50 m. Grade compensation, to two decimal places, is %.
- Question 36 – At which point does the tangent to y=x x make 45° with the x-axis?
- Question 37 – Evaluate I= 01(-1x)21-x2\,dx.
- Question 38 – Given A=bmatrix1&5\\6&2bmatrix, B=bmatrix3&7\\8&4bmatrix, find ABT.
- Question 39 – For y-4y+3y=2t-3t2, the particular solution is .
- Question 40 – Match tests/apparatus P. Le Chatelier, Q. Vee-Bee, R. Blaine air permeability, S. Vicat with properties 1. Soundness of ordinary Portland cement…
- Question 41 – The two prismatic beams shown have the same flexural rigidity 1000 kN m². If their midspan deflections are 1, 2, the correct comparison is .
- Question 42 – Three prismatic cantilevers have clamped supports P, Q, R and loads shown. Given E=2.5104 MPa and I=8108 mm⁴, compare support shear-force magnitudes S…
- Question 43 – Consider: P. One-brick-thick walls are measured in square metres. Q. One-brick-thick walls are measured in cubic metres. R. No deduction in brickwork…
- Question 44 – Two identical concrete piles, plan dimensions 50 cm × 50 cm, are driven 20 m into homogeneous sand as shown. Dry sand has unit weight 18 kN/m³;…
- Question 45 – Consider triaxial stress-path statements: P. If 1= 3, the stress point lies at the origin of the p–q plot. Q. If 1= 3, it lies on the p-axis. R. If 1>…
- Question 46 – Two cars P and Q move for two hours with distances (km) d P=60t, d Q=60t2, where t is hours. Their maximum headway in the first hour and its…
- Question 47 – At A on the potential slip surface of the highway cut shown, shear stress is 50 kPa. Soil parameters are c=20 kPa, =18, s u=80 kPa; unit weights…
- Question 48 – Vertical towers A and B stand on horizontal ground. On the aerial photograph shown, their relief displacements are 1.5 and 2.0 cm, and distances of…
- Question 49 – A hollow circular shaft has outside and inside diameters 100 and 50 mm. With allowable maximum shear stress 125 MPa, maximum torque is kN m.
- Question 50 – A simply supported rectangular concrete beam spans 8 m and is prestressed by 1600 kN through a parabolic tendon with zero eccentricity at supports.…
- Question 51 – Two 8 mm steel plates are connected by 6 mm fillet welds as shown. Allowable plate and weld stresses are 150 and 110 MPa. Treat the indicated weld…
- Question 52 – For the frame shown, E=2.5104 MPa and I=8108 mm⁴ for all members. The rotation at Q, to one decimal place, is degrees.
- Question 53 – A 2 m long, 8 mm diameter mild-steel rod is loaded in tension. Its load–elongation graph is shown. Yield stress is 250 MPa. Complementary strain…
- Question 54 – Four 5000 kN point loads act at corners A, B, C, D of a 4 m × 4 m square as shown. By Boussinesq theory, vertical stress increment 5 m below centre M,…
- Question 55 – An open U-tube of uniform square cross section 5 mm × 5 mm initially has mercury (specific gravity 13.6) standing 20 cm high in each vertical limb.…
- Question 56 – A 1 m wide rectangular channel carries 2 m³/s. For the same specific energy, the subcritical depth is twice the supercritical depth. The subcritical…
- Question 57 – A 25 km × 25 km catchment has four rain gauges at its corners and one at its centre, as shown. Rainfall at G1, G2, G3, G4 and G5 is 300, 285, 272, 290…
- Question 58 – An irrigation project has cultural command area 10000 ha. Rice is grown in kharif and wheat in rabi. The canal was designed for rice on 2500 ha with…
- Question 59 – A horizontal 100 mm diameter pipe carries 0.01 m³/s at Reynolds number 800. Take g = 9.81 m/s². Head loss per kilometre, to one decimal place, is m.
- Question 60 – Municipal-solid-waste components are listed as (mass %, moisture %, energy kJ/kg as discarded): food (20,70,2500); paper (10,4,10000); cardboard…
- Question 61 – The ratio of five-day BOD at 20°C to ultimate BOD is 0.68. The first-order BOD rate constant (base e), to two decimals, is day⁻¹.
- Question 62 – A plant treats 1000 m³/day. An overflow rate of 20 m/day satisfactorily removes discrete suspended particles. For water depth 3 m, the required…
- Question 63 – Water ion data are (milligram equivalent; concentration mg/L): Ca²⁺ (20;60), Mg²⁺ (12.2;36.6), Na⁺ (23;92), K⁺ (39.1;78.2), Cl⁻ (35.5;71), SO₄²⁻…
- Question 64 – Concrete pavements P and Q have the same length, breadth, elastic modulus and Poisson ratio. P has thickness h and subgrade-reaction modulus K; Q has…
- Question 65 – An observer has eye level 5 m above sea level and sees the top of a 40 m high lighthouse. The maximum distance from the lighthouse, to one decimal…