[Total No. of Questions -9]                             [Total No. of Printed Pages – 3]  14706  B.Tech. 6th Semester Examination Highway Engineering CE- 6004 Time: 3 Hours   […]
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Hi, Â Â Failures in cement concrete pavements are recognized mainly by the formation of the structural cracking. Â Failures occur due to two factors: (a) Deficiency of pavement materials. (b) Structural in-adequacy of the pavement system. Â Deficiency of the Pavement Materials: Soft aggregates Poor workmanship in joint construction Poor joint filler or sealer material
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Traffic Capacity Studies are an essential aspect of highway engineering that focuses on understanding the capacity of roads to accommodate traffic volume. To delve into this topic, let’s explore a few important terms. Traffic Volume Traffic volume refers to the number of vehicles passing a specific point on a highway lane in a given direction
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Hi, Failures of flexible pavements can occur due to the failure of one of the four layers – surface, sub-base, base, and subgrade. Failure of Sub-grade will result in the failure of the pavement because it will get reflected in the top surface. Similarly, failure of the sub-base or base layer will also result in
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Hi there,In the syllabus for Highway Engineering(HPU) , this topic is under the section C of Traffic Studies. I have discussed the parking studies in my previous article and in this post I am going to post about the Causes and Prevention of the accidents. Causes Under the mixed traffic conditions and different types of
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Hi,After teaching this topic of highway engineering to 1st batch of Civil Engineering at JNGEC Sunder Nagar, I thought to write a post about it.Certainly, I have not lived in a big city such as Chandigarh,Mumbai or Delhi and more than that I have spent first 10 years at a mountain village of Himachal Pradesh
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This is the third part of the series ‘Highway Economics and Finance’. In the first part, we talked about the need for highway economics and some of the road user benefits with the vehicle operation cost. In the second part, we talked about Highway costs which include the capital cost and the maintenance cost. If
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In the first part of this topic, we have discussed the various highway user benefits and highway operation costs. Being a continuation of the same topic, in this 2nd part, we are going to discuss the highway costs. Read Part one here: Highway Economics and Finance – Part1 Highway Costs In general, the total highway
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Introduction Improvements in the highways result in various benefits to road users such as: Reduction in the vehicle operation cost Reduction in the travel time and resultant benefits in terms of time cost of vehicles and passengers. Reduction in the accidents rates. Ease of driving and improved level of services. increased comfort to the passengers.
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Hi,The main list of the equipment that we need for the construction of the bitumen pavements are: Boiler Sprayer/Distributor Hot Mix Plants Cold Mix Plants Truck/Dumper Mechanical Pavers/ Finishers Rollers Boilers: Boilers are used to soften the bitumen by heating it to certain temperature for its easy application. Sprayer/Distributor: Sprayers are required for spreading/distributing the
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