Highway Engineering Part 1

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1. Which of the following pavement has greater life?

Bituminous pavements

Cement concrete pavements

Gravel roads

Earth roads

2. Which of the following is not a desirable property of the subgrade soil as a highway material?

Good drainage

Ease of compaction

Bitumen adhesion

Stability

3. In earthen roads the common stabilizers used as

bitumen

all are correct

cement

lime

4. The thickness of the road surfacing depends upon the

all of these

type of traffic

type of material

intensity of traffic

5. For conditions obtaining in India, at which location in a cement concrete pavement will the combined stresses due to traffic wheel load and temperature have to be critically checked during design?

Corner, edge and interior

Corner and edge

Corner and interior

Corner

6. The roads connecting village with towns or cities are classified as

village road

minor district road

state highway

major district road

7. The road connecting capitals of states is known as

Express Highway

National Highway

State Highway

Provincial highway

8. For a National highway, the minimum formation width is

12 m

7.5 m

9.5 m

6 m

9. The road connecting one town with another town is designated as

National highway

State highway

District road

Village road

10. A road sign indicates 'No parking' is

mandatory sign

prohibitory sign

informatory sign

warning sign

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11. What are the maximum value of CBR and minimum value of GI of any material, respectively?

100, 0

10, 0

100, 20

50, 5

12. A portion of the traffic way that is used by the pedestrians only is called

footway

footpath

sidewalk

any of these

13. The rate of rise or fall of a road along its alignment is known as

Camber

Super elevation

Gradient

Side slope

14. Camber in the road is provided for

Avoiding overturning

Having proper sight distance

Counteracting the centrifugal force

Effective drainage

15. It is a common practice to design a highway to accommodate the traffic volume corresponding to

ADT

Peak hour

15 min peak period

30 th hour

16. For constructing road pavements, the type of cement generally used is

Low heat cement

Ordinary Portland cement

Rapid hardening cement

Blast furnace slag cement

17. The convexity provided on the surface of a highway is known as

super elevation

curve

camber

gradient

18. In a gravel road, the building material used is

clay

lime

surkhi

cement

19. Reflection cracking is observed in

Bituminous overlay over cement concrete pavement

Rigid overlay over flexible pavement

Rigid pavement

Flexible pavement

20. Which one of the following methods is used in the design of rigid pavements?

McLeod's method

Group index method

Westergaards method

CBR method

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21. The stopping sight distance depends upon

total reaction time of driver

Speed of vehicle

All of the above

Efficiency of brakes

22. Radius of relative Stiffness of cement concrete pavement does not depend upon which one of the following?

Modulus of elasticity of cement concrete

Modulus of subgrade reaction

Wheel load

Poisson's ratio of concrete

23. The measure of Stiffness of track required to produce a unit depression in the track is known as

Track modulus

Load capacity

Tractive force

Gauge

24. A road sign indicates 'Keep Left' is

warning sign

mandatory sign

prohibitory sign

informatory sign

25. Which one of the following tests is performed in the laboratory to determine the extent of weathering of aggregates for roadworks?

Crushing test

Abrasion test

Soundness test

Impact test

26. Which test is performed for quick determination of the quality of subgrade soil?

Stripping

Thread

None of these

CBR

27. A road connecting one town with another is called a

trunk road

main road

highway

country road

28. In urban transportation planning, the 'Modal Split' is the process of which one of the following?

Deciding the choice for a mode

Seperation of traffic streams by flyovers

Segregation of fast and slow modes

Staggering of working hours

29. An access from a road to private property is known as

fly over

drive away

loop road

by pass road

30. In highway construction on superelevated curves, the rolling shall proceed from

centre towards the sides

lower edge towards the upper edge

sides towards the centre

upper edge towards the lower edge

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31. Accidents can be avoided by adopting

CTC system

pilot guard system

interlocking

ATC system

32. For sandy soils the most common method of stabilization is

Mechanical stabilization

Soil cement stabilization

Soil lime stabilization

Soil bitumen stabilization

33. Mandatory signs are displayed on a disc having a diameter of

30 cm

100 cm

60 cm

50 cm

34. A road sign indicates 'No parking' is

informatory sign

prohibitory sign

warning sign

mandatory sign

35. A road within a town is called

trunk road

carriage way

street

country road

36. In concrete roads, the course which can be ommitted is

base course

sub-base course

subgrade

wearing course

37. Full amount of super-elevation on a horizontal curve is provided at the

End of the transition curve

Centre of the transition curve

Centre of the circular curve

Beginning of the transition curve

38. With two way, two lane right angled road intersection, what are total number of potential conflict points?

14

24

32

7

39. Name the traffic survey data is plotted by means of 'Desire lines'.

Speed and delay

Accident

Origin and destination

Classified volume

40. CTC stands for

None of these

Critical Track Control

Centralized traffic control

Critical traffic channelizer

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