Highway Engineering Questions

• Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:
• Setting out of Lemniscate transition curves, is done with
• Super-elevation on roads in snow bound areas, should generally not exceed
• If L is the length of the transition curves provided on either side of a circular curve of radius R, the maximum angle of deflection with tangent for the junctions of the transition curve and circular curve, is
• Indian Road Congress (I.R.C.) was founded and constituted with its head quarters at New Delhi, in
• If the width of a pavement slab is 7.5 m, thickness 20 cm and working stress 1400 kg/cm2, spacing of 10 mm tie bars for the longitudinal joint, is
• If the rate of change of the super-elevation along a curved portion of a 7 metre wide road is 1 in 150 and the maximum super-elevation allowed is 1 in 15, the maximum length of the transition curve to be provided at either end, is
• Excessive camber on pavements may cause
• The minimum road width is taken
• If the width of carriage way is 12.5 metres, outer edge 50 cm higher than the inner edge, the required super elevation is
• To prevent a head-on-collision of vehicles travelling in opposite directions along four-lane roads
• The gradients of trace cuts for hilly roads, are kept
• The normal road land width for a National or State highway, in open areas should be
• Interior thickness of concrete road slab for design wheel load 6300 kg and permissible flexural stress 21 kg/cm2, is
• If cross slope of a country is upto 10% the terain is classified as
• If present A.D.T. is 5000 vehicles and annual increase is 10%, the average future flow after 5 years will be
• Three points, A, B and C 500 m apart on a straight road have 500 m, 505 m and 510 m as their reduced levels. The road is said to have
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• If d is the economic designed depth of a slab, the thickness of the cement concrete pavement slab at interior, is kept
• In case of cement concrete pavements, pick up the incorrect statement