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- Question
The efficiency of the brakes of a vehicle depends upon
Options- A. condition of road surface
- B. condition of the tyres
- C. presence of the show moisture
- D. all the above.
- Correct Answer
- all the above.
- 1. The minimum ratio of the radii of two circular curves of a compound curve, is kept
Options- A. 1.25
- B. 1.5
- C. 1.75
- D. 2.0 Discuss
- 2. Border Roads Organisation for hilly regions, was formed in
Options- A. 1947
- B. 1954
- C. 1958
- D. 1960
- E. 1962 Discuss
- 3. The type of transition curves generally provided on hill roads, is
Options- A. circular
- B. cubic parabola
- C. Lemniscate
- D. spiral. Discuss
- 4. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
Options- A. Safety fences are provided on either side of a roadway if embankments are in excess of 6 metres
- B. Safety fences are provided on outside of the curves of radii less than 750 m if the embankments are between 3 metres and 6 metres
- C. Guard stones are provided at 2.5 metres intervals if embankments are between 1.6 metres to 3 metres
- D. All the above. Discuss
- 5. The weaving length of a roadway is the distance
Options- A. between the channelising islands
- B. equal to half circumference
- C. equal to total width of adjoining radial roads
- D. equal to diameter of rotary. Discuss
- 6. If A is the projected area of a vehicle in square metres, V is speed of the vehicles in kilometres per hour and C is a constant, then the wind resistance R to the moving vehicles, is given by
Options- A. R = CAV
- B. R = CAV2
- C. R = CAV3
- D.
- E. R = C2AV Discuss
- 7. If cross slope of a country is 10% to 25%, the terrain is classified as
Options- A. rolling
- B. mountainous
- C. steep
- D. plain. Discuss
- 8. A single lane carriage way whenever changes to two-lane carriage way, is affected through a taper of
Options- A. 1 in 10
- B. 1 in 15
- C. 1 in 20
- D. 1 in 15 to 1 in 20 Discuss
- 9. Design of flexible pavements is based on
Options- A. mathematical analysis
- B. empirical formulae
- C. a compromise of pure theory and pure empirical formula
- D. none of these. Discuss
- 10. The basic formula for determination of pavement thickness was first suggested by
Options- A. Spanglar
- B. Picket
- C. Kelly
- D. Goldbeck Discuss
Highway Engineering problems
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Correct Answer: 1.5
Correct Answer: 1960
Explanation:
The Border Roads Organization (BRO) was conceived and raised in the year 1960 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the great visionary and the first Prime Ministry of India. This was done with the aim of coordinating the speedy development of network of roads in the North and the North Eastern border regions of the country. BRO is regarded as a symbol of nation-building, national integration and an inseparable component in maintaining the security and integrity of the country.
Correct Answer: spiral.
Correct Answer: All the above.
Correct Answer: between the channelising islands
Correct Answer: R = CAV2
Correct Answer: rolling
Correct Answer: 1 in 15 to 1 in 20
Correct Answer: a compromise of pure theory and pure empirical formula
Correct Answer: Goldbeck
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