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GATE 2023 Transportation Engineering Quiz 54

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Question 1

If axle load of a vehicle is 25 tonnes on a road, then Vehicle Damage Factor is ________. (Standard load is 9 tonnes)

Question 2

If a particular pavement fails with 98 number of repetitions of 4500 kg load and the same pavement fails with W number of repetitions of load 2855 . Then vale of N is

Question 3

Chose the correct statement based on pictures:

I.

II.

Statement-1: I is flexible pavement

Statement-2: II is a rigid pavement

Question 4

A wheel load having radius of stress distribution 20.45 cm is acting on a corner of pavement slab of thickness 30 cm. The distance of the point where maximum stress produced due to the wheel load from the corner along the diagonal of the slab is

(The radius of relative stiffness of slab is 54 cm)

Question 5

If width of the expansion joint is 1.7 m in a cement concrete pavement. The laying temperature is 38°C and the maximum slab temperature in summer is 50°C . The coefficient of thermal expansion of concrete is 4 x 10–5 mm/mm / °C and the joint filler compresses upto 28% of the thickness. The spacing between expansion joints is S mm then Value of S is __________mm (round off to two decimal places)

Question 6

Current traffic volume for 6 lane highway is shown below. A pavement with design life of 15 years is needed to build. If Traffic volume will grow linearly by 25 % (assuming linear increase) over next 15 years and lane distribution factor (upto two decimal places) for lane 4 is _____. 
Design ESAL for lane 4=15682035

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