List of top Civil Structural and Transport Engineering Questions on Highway Engineering

Consider the following in the context of variations in magnetic declination:
A. Secular
B. Diurnal
C. Annual
D. Regular
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Which of the following assumptions are made in the force analysis of simple trusses?
A. All members have same cross-sectional area.
B. The bending resistance of all the members is small in comparison with their axial force resistance.
C. All the external loads are applied directly or indirectly at the joints.
D. All joints are idealized to be frictionless hinges.
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Consider the following modes regarding the failure of an axially loaded column:
A. Local buckling
B. Squashing
C. Joint buckling
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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The leakage losses are less when water supply is intermittent.
Reason (R): Pressure is less in intermittent water supply.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Unit hydrograph theory is not applicable to catchment areas larger than 5000 sq.km.
Reason (R): Rainfall is not uniformly distributed on large catchment areas.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Terzaghi's theory of consolidation considers only primary consolidation.
Reason (R): Secondary consolidation takes place only at the end of the primary consolidation.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
The sight distance available on a road to a driver at any instance depends on:
A. Features of the road ahead
B. Height of the driver's eye above the road surface
C. Height of the object above the road surface
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For a given road, the safe stopping sight distance (SSD) is 80 m and the passing sight distance is 300 m. What will be the intermediate sight distance?
A summit curve is formed at the intersection of a 3% upgrade and 5% downgrade. What is the length of the summit curve in order to provide a stopping distance of 128 m? (Assume: length of summit curve is greater than SSD, driver's eye height = 1.2 m, height of obstruction = 0.15 m).
For a circular curve of radius 200 m, the coefficient of lateral friction is 0.15 and the design speed is 40 kmph. The equilibrium super elevation (for equal pressure on the inner and outer wheels) would be:
What will be the theoretical maximum capacity for a single lane of highway, if the given speed of the traffic stream is 60 kmph and the average center-to-center spacing of the vehicle is 13.98 m?

Match LIST-I with LIST-II (adopting standard notations):\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Parameter)} & \textbf{LIST-II (Formula)} \\ \hline \\ \text{A. Cubic parabola equation} & \text{IV. $\dfrac{X^3}{6RL}$} \\ \\ \hline \\ \text{B. Shift in transition curve} & \text{II. $\dfrac{L^2}{24R}$} \\ \\ \hline \\ \text{C. Length of valley curve} & \text{III. $\dfrac{N S^2}{(1.50 + 0.035S)}$} \\ \\ \hline \\ \text{D. Length of summit curve} & \text{I. $\dfrac{N S^2}{4.4}$} \\ \\ \hline \end{array}\] Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below:

Which of the following parameters are required for the design of a transition curve for a highway system? 

(A) Rate of change of grade 
(B) Rate of change of radial acceleration 
(C) Rate of change of super elevation 
(D) Rate of change of curvature 
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Traffic capacity is defined as: