--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Seat No.: Enrolment No.
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BE - SEMESTER-VIII(NEW) EXAMINATION - SUMMER 2019
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Subject Code: 2184002 Date:13/05/2019
Subject Name: Airport and Seaport Infrastructure
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Time:10:30 AM TO 01:00 PM Total Marks: 70Instructions:
- Attempt all questions.
- Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
- Figures to the right indicate full marks.
- Support your answer with neat sketches wherever possible.
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Q.1 (a) Discuss briefly merits and demerits of water transportation. [03]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(b) What are the components of an airport? Draw the typical layout of airport and describe functions of its components. [07]
(c) Briefly explain terms: Harbour, Hinterland, Port, Dock. [04]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Q.2 (a) Draw the typical layout of a Seaport with artificial harbour. Show all components and write their functions. [07]
(b) Show the different elements and size of typical aircraft in the sketches. What are the advantages of jet engine? [07]
OR
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(b) Draw the sketch and show elements of ship. Briefly explain ship characteristics and load carrying capacities. [07]
Q.3 (a) Discuss following with respect to harbour planning: (a) size & shape of harbour, (b) width of entrance channel, (c) turning basin. [04]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(b) What are the factors affecting in selection of site for an Airport? [04](c) Explain with sketches following phenomena & its importance in design of berthing structures: (a) tides, (b) waves, (c) littoral drift. [06]
OR
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Q.3 (a) What is “Wind rose’ diagram? Describe with sketches the orientation of runway by using wind rose diagram-type II. [04]
(b) What is the function of breakwater? Discuss with sketches methods of construction of mound break waters. [04]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(c) Compute the corrected runway length for: Runway length at sea-level, std. atmospheric pressure, temperature and zero gradient = 1500m, Site elevation = 900 m, ART = 20° ¢, effective gradient = 0.2 %. [06]Q.4 (a) Discuss about structural aspects of dock walls. [04]
(b) Describe with sketches different types of runway configurations and their operating capacities. [04]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(c) Explain with sketches: (i) Lock gates, (ii) Dry dock. [06]
OR
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Q.4 (a) Explain with sketches: Fillets, Holding aprons. [04](b) Explain with sketch: (i) Bucket-ladder dredger, (ii) Grab dredger. [05]
Page 1 of 2
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Q.5 (a) Describe with sketches the working of different types of en-route and landing air traffic control aids. [05]
(b) What is Light House? Explain with sketch its functioning. [04]
(c) Show the components in a detailed C/S sketches of typical (i) Runway and (ii) Taxiway. [04]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
OR
Q.5 (a) Explain with sketches: Buoys, Fenders, Dolphins. [06]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
(b) What are the general points to be observed in grading of an airport? [04](c) Enlist and state significance of supporting facilities and ancillaries required on seaport area. [04]
(c) Describe with sketches surface drainage system and its design procedure for air field. [06]
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
Page 2 of 2
--- Content provided by FirstRanker.com ---
This download link is referred from the post: GTU BE 2019 Summer Question Papers || Gujarat Technological University