🚧 Civil Engineering Solved MCQs with Answers

Practice 1228 approved 🚧 Civil Engineering questions with verified answers from the 🛠️ Engineering Essentials subject for Pakistan exams.

1228 solved MCQs

Traffic engineering only includesAnswer: all the above. For the movement of vehicles at an intersection of two roads, without any interference, the type of grade separator generally preferred to, isAnswer: clover leaf. If the ruling gradient on any highway is 3%, the gradient provided on the curve of 300 metre radius, isAnswer: 2.75% As per recommendations of I.R.C., traffic volume study is carried out for rural roads for 7 days continuously duringAnswer: harvesting and lean season The minimum ratio of the radii of two circular curves of a compound curve, is keptAnswer: 1.5 Border Roads Organisation for hilly regions, was formed inAnswer: 1960 Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. The super-elevation on roads isAnswer: directly proportional to velocity of vehicles The weaving length of a roadway is the distanceAnswer: between the channelising islands Road makers along roads from the edge of a kerb should not be less thanAnswer: 60 cm Traffic surveys are carried outAnswer: all the above. The usual width of parapet walls along Highways in hilly region, isAnswer: 60 cm The road foundation for modern highways construction, was developed byAnswer: Telford and Macadam simultaneously. If C is basic capacity per lane, V is velocity in km/hour, S is stopping distance pluslength of the vehicles in metres, the formula C=1000V/S is applicable toAnswer: two lane roads in one direction Width of vehicles affects the width ofAnswer: all the above. First operation during the detailed survey of a hill road, isAnswer: fixation of Bench Marks The period of long term plan for the development of roads in India, known as Bombay Plan (Aug. 1958), isAnswer: 20 years In water bound macadam roads, binding material, isAnswer: stone dust According to Highway Research Board of U.S.A. practical land width, isAnswer: 3.6 m Design of flexible pavements is based onAnswer: a compromise of pure theory and pure empirical formula The efficiency of the brakes of a vehicle depends uponAnswer: all the above. Maximum super-elevation on hill roads should not exceedAnswer: 10% The type of transition curves generally provided on hill roads, isAnswer: spiral. The maximum safe speed on roads, depends on theAnswer: all the above. The basic formula for determination of pavement thickness was first suggested byAnswer: Goldbeck Increase in traffic volume, due to increase in transport vehicles, is known asAnswer: normal traffic growth The weight of vehicles affectsAnswer: all the above. Pick up the correct statement from the following:Answer: All the above. Deviation of the alignment of a trace cut may be permitted in areas involvingAnswer: land slides If cross slope of a country is 10% to 25%, the terrain is classified asAnswer: rolling Shoulders for high traffic volume roads, shouldAnswer: all the above.