Highway Engineering

271. The most suitable equipment for compacting clayey soils is a

1. Smooth wheeled roller
2. Pneumatic tyred roller
3. Sheep foot roller
4. Vibrator

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272. The normal road land width for a major district road in open area, is

1. 45 m
2. 25 m
3. 15 m
4. 12 m

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273. The normal road land width for a National or State highway, in open areas should be

1. 45 m
2. 30 m
3. 24 m
4. 20 m

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274. The normal road width of National and State highways

1. Is kept 45 m
2. In plain and rolling terrain built-up area, is 30 m
3. In mountainous built-up area is 20 m
4. All the above

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275. The number of repetitions, which the pavement thickness designed for a given wheel load should be able to support during the life pavement is

1. 1000
2. 10000
3. 100000
4. 1000000

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276. The number of vehicles moving in a specified direction on a roadway that pass a given point during specified unit of time, is called

1. Traffic volume
2. Traffic density
3. Basic capacity
4. Traffic capacity

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277. The pavement width of a road depends upon

1. Terrain
2. Type of traffic
3. Number of lanes
4. All the above

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278. The period of long term plan for the development of roads in India, known as Bombay Plan (Aug. 1958), is

1. 5 years
2. 10 years
3. 15 years
4. 20 years

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279. The perpendicular offset from the tan-get to the central point of the circular curve, is

1. R sin θ/2
2. R cos θ/2
3. R (1 - cos θ/2)
4. R (1 - sin θ/2)

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280. The radius of curvature provided along a transition curve, is

1. Minimum at the beginning
2. Same throughout its length
3. Equal to the radius of circular curve
4. Varying from infinity to the radius of circular curve

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