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Highway Engineering Online Test – Paper 1

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Total Questions: 20
Time Allotted: 30 minutes
Passing Score: 40%
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1. Camber depends on

a) amount of rainfall

b) grade of wearing coarse

c) smoothness of the base course

d) permeability of subgrade

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2. Camber is

a) b/a

b) 2b/a

c) a/b

d) 2a/b

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3. Camber in the road is provided for

a) effective drainage

b) counteracting the centrifugal force

c) having proper sight distance

d) all of the above

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4. In scant rainfall regions, the camber provided is

a) nil

b) flatter

c) steeper

d) normal

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5. Excessive camber on pavement may cause

a) erosion of the berms

b) deterioration of the center position

c) slip of the speedy vehicle

d) all of the above

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6. When an up gradient of a highway meets a downgrade, the vertical curve provided is known as

a) valley curve

b) sag curve

c) summit curve

d) all of the above

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7. The ideal shape of a transition curve is

a) clothoid

b) lamniscate

c) cubic parabola

d) none of the above

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8. An ideal transition curve is the one whose length is

a) constant

b) directly proportional to the radius

c) inversely proportional to the radius

d) inversely proportional to the radius of the main curve

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9. Horizontal curves on highways are provided

a) to break the monotony of driving

b) to discourage the tendency to increase speed

c) to decrease the mental tension on drivers

d) all of the above

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10. The types of curves generally provided on highways are

a) circular curve

b) transitional curve

c) vertical curve

d) all of the above

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11. The desirable property of road stone is

a) hardness to resist rubbing

b) toughness to resist fracture under impact

c) good binding

d) all of the above

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12. In order to reduce the danger of floods, the height of a road embankment should be

a) 60 cm above the highest flood level of the area

b) 200 cm above the highest flood level of the area

c) at a level equal to the highest flood level of the area

d) 100 cm above the ground water level of the area

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13. Reinforcement in cement concrete pavement is kept

a) 5 cm below from the top level

b) 5 cm high from the bottom level

c) in the center of the slab

d) in the bottom of the slab

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14. Bituminous road is

a) fair weather road

b) all-weather road

c) rigid pavement

d) all of the above

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15. Bitumen is soluble in

a) diesel

b) petrol

c) ammonia

d) carbon disulphide

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16. For iron-wheeled traffic, the best suitable pavement is

a) flexible pavement

b) rigid pavement

c) earthen roads

d) all of the above

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17. The drawback of rigid pavement is that

a) no cracks occur even if local settlement takes place

b) it acts as a cover over small depressions

c) any small rifts further widen

d) its ability to withstand high loads is less

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18. The example of rigid pavement is

a) gravel road

b) bituminous road

c) WBM

d) cement concrete road

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19. The layer that is directly coming in contact with the traffic is

a) wearing course

b) base course

c) sub-base

d) sub-grade

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20. CBR (California Bearing Ratio) test is used for finding

a) strength of sub-grade

b) strength of concrete

c) strength of bitumen

d) all of the above

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