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- Question
For the design of cement concrete pavement for corner loading, Indian Road Congress recommends the use of
Options- A. Westergard's formula
- B. Kelly's formula
- C. Goldbeck's formula
- D. Spanlar's formula
- E. Picker's formula.
- Correct Answer
- Picker's formula.
- 1. Which one of the following transportation systems is not used for the conveyance of passengers in India?
Options- A. railways
- B. roads
- C. shipping
- D. air lines
- E. pipe lines. Discuss
- 2. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
Options- A. The height of head light above road surface, is taken as 0.75 m
- B. The beam of head light is up to one degree upwards from the grade of road
- C. While designing the valley curve, the height of the object is assumed nil
- D. All the above Discuss
- 3. Design of highways is based on
Options- A. axle loads
- B. axle spacings
- C. wheel bases
- D. over all length
- E. all the above. Discuss
- 4. The statement, regarding the size of stones used at the wearing surface. "The size of a stone used on a road must be in due proportion to the space occupied by a wheel of ordinary dimensions on a smooth level surface. The point of contact will be found to be longitudinal about 2.5 cm and every piece of stone put into the road which exceeds 2.5 cm in any of its dimension is mischievious" was made by
Options- A. Telford
- B. Macadam
- C. Tresguet
- D. Sully. Discuss
- 5. When a number of hair pin bends are introduced, a minimum intervening distance in between is kept
Options- A. 20 m
- B. 40 m
- C. 60 m
- D. 100 m Discuss
- 6. To prevent movement of moisture from subgrade to road pavement on embankments about 0.6 m to 1 m higher than water table, the thickness of cut off layer of coarse sand used, is
Options- A. 15 cm
- B. 20 cm
- C. 30 cm
- D. 45 cm
- E. none of these. Discuss
- 7. The distance travelled by a moving vehicle during perception and brake reaction times, is known as
Options- A. sight distance
- B. stopping distance
- C. lag distance
- D. none of these. Discuss
- 8. On a pavement with parabolic camber, the angle of inclination of the vehicles will be
Options- A. more at the crown
- B. less at the edges
- C. more at the edges
- D. same at the edges as well as at the crown
- E. none of these. Discuss
- 9. Minimum radius of a simple circular curve deflecting through 5°, is
Options- A. 1618.9 m
- B. 1816.9 m
- C. 1718.9 m
- D. 1817.9 m Discuss
- 10. Degree of a road curve is defined as the angle in degrees subtended at the centre by an arc of
Options- A. 10 metres
- B. 20 metres
- C. 25 metres
- D. 30 metres
- E. 50 metres Discuss
Highway Engineering problems
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Correct Answer: pipe lines.
Correct Answer: All the above
Correct Answer: all the above.
Correct Answer: Macadam
Correct Answer: 60 m
Correct Answer: none of these.
Correct Answer: lag distance
Correct Answer: more at the edges
Correct Answer: 1718.9 m
Correct Answer: 20 metres
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