Highway Engineering Online Test – Paper 2

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

2. The loosening of a wearing surface under the action of traffic or weather, associated with the failure of the binding agent to keep the surface consolidated is called

3. A road within a town is called

4. During construction of the road subgrade contains

5. The highest overall speed at which a driver can travel under prevailing conditions without exceeding the safe design speed is known as the:

6. The maximum speed on the road depends upon the type of

7. An undesirable element to be avoided while fixing the alignment of a highway is

8. Character of traffic means

9. In the case of a gravel road, pothole maintenance comes under the maintenance of

10. Maximum daily traffic capacity of bituminous pavement is

11. Dorry testing machine is used for conducting

12. The width of the vehicle influences

13. On the pavement with parabolic camber, the angle of inclination of vehicles will be

14. The length of the side of warning sign boards on roads is

15. Cement grouted pavement is classified as

16. Maximum amount of super elevation should not be greater than

17. Marked local depression in a surface layer arising from the wearing away of material is called

18. Higher values of super elevation are highly undesirable to

19. In cement concrete roads, the repair work of cracks should be done just at the end of:

20. The angle of most acute vision of a driver is a cone of

21. The steepest gradient is

22. The shape of the camber provided for cement concrete pavement is

23. The length of Arniko Highway connecting Kathmandu to Kodari is

24. In a proposed alignment, the type of soil which will not be preferred is

25. If the velocity of a moving vehicle on a road is v kmph, s is stopping distance plus the average length of the vehicle in meters, then the basic capacity of a lane is given by

26. The structure provided on both sides of shoulders to pass the rainwater is known as

27. The end supports of a bridge are called

28. The efficiency and life of a hill road can be considerably increased by providing

29. Raising of the outer edge of a road with respect to the inner edge is known as

30. If the difference of an edge of the pavement (18m wide) and its crown is 30 cm, then the camber in the pavement is