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  • Question

  • Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. The super-elevation on roads is


  • Options
  • A. directly proportional to width of pavement
  • B. directly proportional to velocity of vehicles
  • C. inversely proportional to acceleration due to gravity
  • D. inversely proportional to the radius of curvature.

  • Correct Answer
  • directly proportional to velocity of vehicles 

    • Highway Engineering problems

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    • 1. The basic formula for determination of pavement thickness was first suggested by

    • Options
    • A. Spanglar
    • B. Picket
    • C. Kelly
    • D. Goldbeck
      • Discuss
    • 2. 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
    • 3. 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
    • 4. 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
    • 5. 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
    • 6. A district road with a bituminous pavement has a horizontal curve of 1000 m for a design speed of 75 km ph. The super-elevation is

    • Options
    • A. 1 in 40
    • B. 1 in 50
    • C. 1 in 60
    • D. 1 in 70
    • E. none of these.
      • Discuss
    • 7. Traffic engineering only includes

    • Options
    • A. planning of regulatory measures
    • B. design and application of control devices
    • C. analysis of traffic characteristics
    • D. traffic opeation
    • E. all the above.
      • Discuss
    • 8. Deviation of the alignment of a trace cut may be permitted in areas involving

    • Options
    • A. land slides
    • B. sand dunes
    • C. dens
    • D. none of these.
      • Discuss
    • 9. The minimum value of camber provided for thin bituminous surface hill roads, is

    • Options
    • A. 2.2%
    • B. 2.5%
    • C. 3.0%
    • D. 3.5%
      • Discuss
    • 10. The formula for calculating the depth of concrete pavements suggested by Goldbeck, is

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
      • Discuss

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