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- Question
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.
- Correct Answer
- lag distance
- 1. 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
- 2. 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. Discuss
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. If the designed speed on a circular curve of radius 1400 m is 80 km/hour, no superelevation is provided, if the camber, is
Options- A. 4%
- B. 3%
- C. 2%
- D. 1.7% Discuss
- 10. If V is speed in km/hour and R is radius of the curve, the superelevation e is equal to
Options- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
Discuss
Highway Engineering problems
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Correct Answer: none of these.
Correct Answer: Picker's formula.
Correct Answer: pipe lines.
Correct Answer: All the above
Correct Answer: all the above.
Correct Answer: more at the edges
Correct Answer: 1718.9 m
Correct Answer: 20 metres
Correct Answer: 2%
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