GATE CE 2017 Paper 1 — page 12

Questions 34–36 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

The radius of a horizontal circular curve on a highway is 120 m. The design speed is 60 km/hour, and the design coefficient of lateral friction between the tyre and the road surface is 0.15. The estimated value of superelevation required (if full lateral friction is assumed to develop), and the value of coefficient of friction needed (if no superelevation is provided) will, respectively, be

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and 0.10

and 0.37

and 0.24

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The observed bearings of a traverse are given below:

Line | Bearing PQ | 46°15′ QR | 108°15′ RS | 201°30′ ST | 321°45′

Line | Bearing QP | 226°15′ RQ | 286°15′ SR | 20°30′ TS | 141°45′

The station(s) most likely to be affected by the local attraction is/are

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Only R

Only S

R and S

P and Q

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The laboratory tests on a soil sample yields the following results: natural moisture content = 18%, liquid limit = 60%, plastic limit = 25%, percentage of clay sized fraction = 25%. The liquidity index and activity (as per the expression proposed by Skempton) of the soil, respectively, are

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−0.2 and 1.4

0.2 and 1.4

−1.2 and 0.714

1.2 and 0.714

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