3.

990 | Unit 4 ■ Construction Materials and Management

Test
Transportation Engineering Time: 60 Minutes
1. Indian Road Congress was established in the year 10. The sight distance available to a driver travelling on the
______. road at any instance depends on the following factors.
(A) 1932 (B) 1930 I. Height of drivers eyes above the road surface.
(C) 1934 (D) 1936 II. Height of object above the road surface.
2. The maximum grade compensation necessary to ease (A) Both I and II are true.
the gradients at horizontal curves is ______. (B) I is false and II is true.
(C) Both I and II are false.
60 30 + R
(A) (B) (D) I is true and II is false.
R R
11. Which of the following relation is true?
75 40 + R (A) Ruling gradient < limiting gradients < exceptional
(C) (D)
R R gradient
3. The length of the summit curve for a stopping sight (B) Limiting gradient > ruling gradient > exceptional
distance of 100 m with an upward gradient of 1% and gradient
downward gradient of 2% is ______. (C) Exceptional gradient < limiting gradient < ruling
Take the height of the eye of the driver to be 1.2 m gradient
and the height of the object above the roadways to be (D) Ruling gradient > limiting gradients > exceptional
0.15 m. gradient
(A) 62 m (B) 65 m 12. Calculate the safe stopping sight distance on a level
(C) 73 m (D) 69 m road, stretch for design speed of 40 km/h for a two
4. The extra widening necessary on a two lane pavement way traffic on a single lane road assuming coefficient
for a curve of radius 80 m and wheel base 6 m with a of friction as 0.37 and reaction time of driver as 2.5
design speed of 65 km/h is ______. seconds.
(A) 1.23 m (B) 1.43 m (A) 44.79 m (B) 45.68 m
(C) 1.17 m (D) 1.13 m (C) 89.59 m (D) 88.63 m
5. Width of roadway of two lane national highway in Direction for questions 13 and 14:
mountainous and steep terrain is The radius of horizontal circular curve is 400 m. The design
(A) 6.25 m (B) 8.8 m speed is 80 km/h and coefficient of lateral friction is 0.1.
(C) 4.75 m (D) 9 m
13. Calculate the super-elevation required (if the lateral
6. An aggregate is said to be exceptionally strong when friction is assumed to develop).
the aggregate impact value is (A) 0.58 (B) 0.025
(A) less than 10. (B) 10 to 20. (C) 0.007 (D) 0.48
(C) 20 to 30. (D) above 35.
14. Coefficient of friction needed if no super-elevation is
7. Bitumen of viscosity 80/100 penetration grade is used provided is ______.
for (A) 0.15 (B) 0.19
(A) spraying applications. (C) 0.125 (D) 0.087
(B) paving applications in cold regions.
(C) paving applications in hot regions. Direction for questions 15 and 16:
(D) high stress areas like toll plaza, terminals, etc. A vertical summit curve is to be designed when two grades +
8. Length of the transition curve for comfort condition is 1/20 and – 1/50 meet on the highway. The stopping sight dis-
______. tance and over taking sight distance required are 120 m and
600 m respectively. The length of vertical the curve is
V3 L restricted to a maximum value of 500 m.
(A) LS = (B) LS =
CR 2 15. The length of the summit curve needed to fulfill the
NV 3 requirements of stopping sight distance is ______.
(C) LS = (D) All of these (A) 228 m (B) 229 m
C
(C) 230 m (D) 222 m
9. The minimum length of overtaking zone should be (d1
+ d2 + d3 = OSD) 16. The length of summit curve needed to fulfill the
requirements of overtaking sight distance is ______.
(A) 2(d1 + d2 + d3). (B) 5(d1 + d2 + d3). (A) 1052.7 m (B) 1048.9 m
(C) 3(d1 + d2 + d3). (D) 4(d1 + d2 + d3). (C) 1062.8 m (D) 1073.9 m

Part III_Unit 11_Chapter 04.indd 990 5/31/2017 4:15:33 PM

 Test | 3.991

Direction for questions 17 and 18: 20.    I. 

Viscosity test on bitumen is done to assess the
The wheel load of 5100 kg is applied on a pavement of thick- ability to be sprayed through jets.
ness 18 cm, modulus of elasticity 3 × 105 kg/cm2, radius of II. Coating test on bitumen is done to assess the
contact area 15 cm and Poisson’s ratio = 0.15. Modulus of stability in presence of fines in aggregates.
subgrade reaction = 6 kg/cm3. (A) I is true and II is false.
(B) I is false and II is true.
17. The stress at the corner of the slab is ______.
(C) Both I and II are true.
(A) 24.27 kg/cm2 (B) 22.56 kg/cm2 (D) Both I and II are false.
(C) 25.96 kg/cm 2 (D) 26.5 kg/cm2 21. The number of commercial vehicles in the year
18. The location where a crack develops due to corner load of completing overlay construction is estimated
is ______. to be 2850 per day with an average growth rate of
(A) 85 cm (B) 84.5 cm 6.5 per cent per year, if the average VDF value is 5.4
(C) 84 cm (D) 84.3 cm and the traffic design period is 10 years. The design
19. According to the bituminous mix design by Marshall traffic volume if the LDF = 0.75 is ______.
method, match the following correctly: (Binder content (A) 110 msa (B) 98 msa
% on X-axis) (C) 83 msa (D) 57 msa
List I List II 22. The following data are related to a horizontal curved
(i) Marshall stability 1.
portion of a two lane highway: length of curve = 300 m,
vs binder content% radius of curve = 600 m, width of pavement = 9.5 m. In
order to provide an SSD of 80 m the set back distance
of the inner lane of the pavement is
(A) 3.71 m (B) 2.35 m
(C) 4.62 m (D) 2.97 m
23. The speeds of overtaking and overtaken vehicles on
(ii) Flow value vs 2. the highways are 70 km/h and 65 km/h respectively.
binder content%
Assuming acceleration of overtaking vehicle as
2.5 km/h/s and speed of vehicle in opposite direc-
tion as 65 km/h, the overtaking sight distance needed
for two way traffic is (assume reaction time of driver
= 2 seconds) ______.
(iii) Voids% vs binder 3.
(A) 451 m (B) 326 m
content% (C) 564 m (D) 275 m
24. In a concrete pavement:
I. Temperature stress is tensile at bottom during day
time.
II. Load stress is compressive at the bottom.
Identify the correct choice from the following.
(iv) Voids filled with 4.
bitumen vs binder (A) Both the statement (A) and (B) are correct.
content % (B) Statement (A) is correct and (B) is incorrect.
(C) Statement (B) is incorrect and (A) is correct.
(D) Both statements (A) and (B) are incorrect.
25. A valley curve is formed by a descending grade of 1 in
35 meeting an ascending grade of 1 in 30. Assuming
Codes: allowable rate of change of centrifugal acceleration is
(A) i – 2, ii – 3, iii – 4, iv – 1 0.6 m/s3, design speed is 50 km/h, then the length of the
(B) i – 4, ii – 2, iii – 1, iv – 3 valley curve to fulfill comfort condition is ______.
(C) i – 3, ii – 4, iii – 1, iv – 2 (A) 128 m (B) 33 m
(D) i – 2, ii – 1, iii – 4, iv – 3 (C) 73 m (D) 94 m

Answer Keys
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. A
11. A 12. C 13. B 14. C 15. B 16. C 17. A 18. C 19. D 20. A
21. D 22. A 23. A 24. A 25. B

Part III_Unit 11_Chapter 04.indd 991 5/31/2017 4:15:33 PM