GATE Geotechnical Engineering: Deep foundations: piles and pile groups – Previous Year Questions
7 GATE previous year questions on Deep foundations: piles and pile groups (Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q17 – A group of 9 friction piles are arranged in a square grid maintaining equal spacing in all directions. Each pile is of diameter 300 mm and length 7 m.…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q34 – A reinforced concrete pile of 10 m length and 0.7 m diameter is embedded in a saturated pure clay with unit cohesion of 50 kPa. If the adhesion factor…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q57 – A 4 4 group pile, with each pile 20 m long and 500 mm in diameter, is installed in a square pattern in a clayey soil, as shown in the figure. The…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q58 – A single pile with 450 mm diameter has been driven into a homogeneous clay layer, which has an undrained cohesion (c u) of 20 kPa and unit weight of…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q22 – Information related to foundation design is provided in table below. Column 1 Column 2 --- --- (I) Converse-Labarre formula (P) Pile capacity from…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q57 – A circular pile of 600 mm diameter and 6 m length is embedded in a saturated clayey soil. Undrained cohesion of the soil is 80 kPa. Unit weight of the…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q58 – A group of 25 circular piles is arranged in 5 5 uniform pattern in a soft clay soil with equal spacing in both the directions. These are friction…