1. a. State various characteristics of good timbers and describe various uses of timber.
b. State properties of good bricks and describe various tests for bricks.

2.
What is the cost owning and operating a construction equipment? How will you determine the hourly cost of construction equipment?

3.
What are the various methods of tacheometry? Explain in brief.

4.
Write detail Comparison between Rigid and Flexible Pavements?


PART-B
5. a. Explain the methods of obtaining average rainfall over actachment. Write their merits and demerits.
b.
The following are the ordinals of the flood hydrograph from a catchment area of 780 sq kIn due to 6h storm. Drive the 12 h unit hydrograph.

c.
What is channel routing? Develop the channel routing equation



6. a. Explain how to access the storage capacity of a reservoir. Use
appropriate diagram.
b. Design an irrigation unlined canal with the following data
Q=60 m3/s,d50 1mm. Draw the section of designed canal.
c. A gravity dam is shown below consider hydrostatic force self
weight full uplift

7. 8. Define BOD and how it is determined? Why the analysis of sewage is necessary? Describe the method of collecting sample of sewage.