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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Highway Engineering
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Highway engineering (also known as roadway engineering and street engineering) is a professional engineering discipline branching from the civil engineering subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods. (Source: Wikipedia)

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Highway Engineering
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25 Questions

1. The most suitable equipment for compacting clayey soils is a
2. Excessive camber on pavements may cause
3. The binder normally used in flexible pavement construction is
4. If the radius of curvature of a hill road is 50 m, the percentage grade compensation should be
5. At a road junction, 7 cross conflict points are severe if
6. The total value of extra widening required at a horizontal curve on a two lane hill road of radius 42 m for a design speed of 50 kmph and for vehicles with wheel base 6 m, is
7. If C is basic capacity per lane, V is velocity in km/hour, S is stopping distance plus length of the vehicles in metres, the formula C = 1000V/S is applicable to
8. From the point of tangency before an intersection, the route markers are fixed at a distance of
9. The maximum distance of the apex of a vertical curve of length L from the point of intersection of two grades + g1%, and - g2% (g1 > g2), is
10. On earth roads, the camber should preferably be
11. In highway construction on super-elevated curves, the rolling shall proceed from
12. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
13. The group index for a soil, whose liquid limit is 40 percent, plasticity index is 10 percent and percentage passing 75 micron IS sieve
14. If aggregate impact value is 20 to 30 percent, then it is classified as
15. In case of a hair pin bend of a highway,
16. If V is speed in km/hour and R is radius of the curve, the super-elevation e is equal to
17. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
18. Hill roads are
19. The width of the right of way, is influenced by
20. Reduction of load capacity in a ruling gradient of
21. As per recommendations of I.R.C., traffic volume study is carried out for rural roads for 7 days continuously during
22. Ruling gradient on hill roads 300 m above M.S.L. is kept
23. The normal road land width for a National or State highway, in open areas should be
24. A single lane carriage way whenever changes to two-lane carriage way, is affected through a taper of
25. Flexible pavement distribute the wheel load