List of top Agricultural Engineering and Technology Questions on Storage Structures

Cover and plinth (CAP) is related to
Loose housing barn is one in which
(A) Milking parlour is separately constructed
(B) Animals move about freely in a covered or partially covered yard
(C) Animals are housed and milked in same building
(D) Permits changes in herd size without any difficulty
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When a mass of grain having an angle of internal friction of 30 degrees is stored in a bin, what will be the Rankine's earth pressure coefficient?
Important functions of a septic tank includes:
(A) Storage of sludge and scum
(B) Removal of solids from the sewage
(C) Decomposition of solid sewage under aerobic conditions
(D) Decomposition of solid sewage under anerobic conditions
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The moment of inertia of a triangular section of base (b) and height (h) about an axis passing through its vertex and parallel to the base is ____________ times as that passing through its centre of gravity and parallel to the base.
If a body is in equilibrium, we may conclude that

(A) No force is acting on the body.
(B) The resultant of all the horizontal forces acting on it is zero.
(C) The resultant of all the vertical forces acting on it is zero.
(D) The moments of the forces about any point is zero.

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The centre of gravity of a right circular cone of diameter (d) and height (h) lies at a distance of ____________ from the base measured along the vertical radius.
If the moment of inertia of a body along a perpendicular axis passing through its centre of gravity is 50 kg.m2 and the mass of the body is 30 kg. What will be the moment of inertia (kg.m2) of the same body along another axis, which is 50 cm away from the current axis and parallel to it?