top 15 civil engineer interview question 2024

Q1. Name various authorities or workers on a construction site?

Ans:

• Senior Engineer/Project manager
• Site Engineer
• Contracter
• Mistri
• Mason/labor

Q2. What are the functions of column in a building?

Ans: Column is a verticle member in building whose primary function is to support structural load and transfer it through beams. Upper columns transfers the load to the lower columns and finally to the ground through footings.

Q3. What is the Unit Weight of concrete?

Ans: The unit weight of concrete depends on the type of aggregates and amount of voids. As per IS : 456-200 Unit weight of PCC is 24KN/m3 and RCC is 25KN/m3

Q4. What is ductility?

Ans: Ductility is the Ability to deform under tensile stress.

Q5. What is the cement sand & aggregate ratios for various grades of concrete mix?

Ans:

• M10 – 1:3:6
• M15 – 1:2:4
• M20 – 1:1.5:3
• M25 – 1:1:2
• M30 – 1:1:1

Q6. What do you mean by honeycomb in concrete?

Ans: Honeycomb, also known as airpocket, is nothing but the air voids in concrete. It is usually formed during concrete casting.

Q7. What is flat slab?

Ans: The slab which is supported on columns. (Flab slab don’t have beams)

Q8. What do you mean by One storeyed, Two storeyed building?

Ans: The building which has two floors is called two storeyed building.

Q9. What do you mean by the moment of inertia?

Ans: A quantity expressing a body’s tendency to resist angular acceleration, which is the sum of the products of the mass of each particle in the body with the square of its distance from the axis of rotation.

Q10. What are the types of a slump?

Ans:

True Slump: The concrete mass after the test when slumps evenly all around without disintegration is called the true slump.

Shear Slump: When one-half of the concrete mass slide down the other is called the shear slump. This type of slump is obtained in a lean concrete mix.

Collapse Slump: When the sample is collapsed due to adding excessive water, it is known as collapse slump.

Zero Slump:  For very stiff or dry mixes it does not show any changes of the slump after removing the slump cone.

Q11. What is the initial and final setting time of ideal cement mix?

Ans: Initial setting time for ideal cement mix is around 30 minutes for almost all kind of cements. For masonry cement it can be 90minutes. Final setting time of ideal cement mix should be 10 hours at max. For masonry cement it shouldn’t exceed 24hours.

Q12. What are common methods of curing the concrete?

Ans: 

• Spraying
• Wet covering of Surface
• Ponding
• Application of curing chemicals
• Steam curing

Q13. What do you know about “TMT”?

Ans: TMT stands for “Thermo Mechanically Treated”. Generally we use TMT bars and sheet for construction purposes for the reason that they have high strength and high corrosion resistance compared to normal steels.

Q14. What are the types of a slump?
A. True Slump: The concrete mass after the test when slumps evenly all around without disintegration is called the true slump.
Shear Slump: When one-half of the concrete mass slide down the other is called the shear slump. This type of slump is obtained in a lean concrete mix.
Collapse Slump: When the sample is collapsed due to adding excessive water, it is known as collapse slump.
Zero Slump:  For very stiff or dry mixes it does not show any changes of the slump after removing the slump cone.

Q15. What is honeycomb in concrete? How is it formed? How to eradicate honey comb in concrete?
A. Learn about Honeycomb concrete

Q16. What is grouting?
A.     Grout is a fluid form of concrete which is used to fill the voids.

Q17. What is allowable moisture content in Fine aggregate for the concrete mix?
A.     We won’t use the aggregate if its moisture content is more than 5%.

Q18. What do you mean by segregation?
A.     Segregation is a separation of cement, sand from aggregate. This is caused due to Water cement ratio and  when concrete is poured about more than 1.5m

Q19. What is Seepage?
A.      Slow percolation of water through soil is called Seepage.

Q20. What is the Compressive Strength of brick?
A.      Second class brick-70kg/cm2
          First class brick-105kg/cm2
          Fire brick-125kg/cm2

Q21. How do you check the quality of cement on the site?

A.     1. Date of Mfg: Cement strength decreases with its age.
         2. Color: Colour should be grey with light greenish shade and it should be uniform. Color gives an indication of excess lime or clay.
         3. Float test: A good cement won’t float if you throw a cement in water.
         4. When you put your hand in cement bag you should feel cool.

Q22. 1BHK full form : 1 Bedroom, 1 Hall, 1kitchen

Q23. What are the Different types of Slabs?
A.      There are 16+ different types of slabs

Q24. What is Initial & final setting time of concrete?
A.     Intial Setting time : 30mins, Final setting time : 10hrs

Q25. What is durability?
A.     Ability to withstand under pressure is called Durability.

Q26. What are the concrete tests?
A.     Slump test, Compressive strength test, water permeability test, Water absorption test 

Q27. What is bleeding in concrete?
A.     Bleeding is one form of segregation, where water comes out to the surface of the concrete,   being lowest specific gravity among all the ingredients of concrete.

Q28. What is the name of the machine to get compression test?
A.     Universal testing machine (UTM)

Q29. When we go for Pile foundation?
A.     Pile foundation is adopted when the Soil bearing capacity is less than  24KN/M3 

Q30. What is the function of stirrups in the column?
A.  Stirrups are provided to handle the shear force and to hold the rebars (main bars) in position.