Week 5_Civil Engineering Materials

Material is __________ which a thing is or can be made.

• Structural member

• Structure

• Substance

• Product

Which one is NOT a material that can be use in construction?

• Cement

• Stone

• Timber

• Brush

In civil engineering, materials are employed to design and build all type of structures, except:

• Bridge

• Dam

• Retaining wall

• Concrete

Stones can be classified in the following three ways, except:

• Geological

• Biology

• Chemical

• Physical

Example of Siliceous Rocks is:

• Slate

• Limestone

• Laterite

• Quartzite

Toughness is a resistance to impact.

• True

• False

Concrete is combination of:

• Water, cement

• Water, cement, sand

• Water, cement, sand, stone

• Water, cement, sand, stone, rebar

What is function of cement?

• To bind rebar and sand together.

• To bind the sand and coarse aggregate together.

• To bind the water and stone together.

• To bind stone and rebar together.

OPC is stand for __________.

• Ordinary Portugal Cement

• Ordinary Portland Cement

• Ordinary Portland Concrete

• Ordinary Portugal Concrete

What is advantages of concrete?

• Not easy to disintegrate by alkali and

  sulphate attack

• Can handle the tension stresses 10 times more than the compression

• Economical compared to other engineering materials

• Expands and contracts

  with the changes in temperature