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Highway Engineering Practice Test: Highway Maintenance — Flashcards

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Highway Maintenance topics include: Highway maintenance works, road infrastructure damages, maintenance requirements in road components, distress in rigid and flexible pavements and maintenance measures, flexible pavements evaluation and strengthening by overlay.

Highway maintenance is the process of maintaining the operational quality of roads to ensure smooth traffic flow. 

It involves:
Maintaining the condition of roads: Keeping roads, roadside, and structures as close to their original condition as possible
Preventing accidents: Regularly inspecting roads for damage and carrying out preventative repairs to avoid accidents or more extensive work in the future
Correcting deficiencies: Correcting deficiencies in the highway which have developed as the result of age, wear, weather, and damage
Estimating maintenance needs: Estimating the amount of work to be performed on various highway sections within a maintenance unit during a coming year or season 

Some suggested maintenance methods include:
Continuous periodic inspection of roads
Filling cracks and repairing minor defects on the road surface
Constructing the shoulders and repairing edge cracking of the road
Providing the well design camber 

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The earth slopes and cuts get damaged due to __________
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