Question 45

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A broad gauge railway line passes through a horizontal curved section (radius = 875

) of length 200

. The allowable speed on this portion is 100

. For calculating the cant, consider the gauge as centre-to-centre distance between the rail heads, equal to 1750

. The maximum permissible cant (in

, round off to 1 decimal place) with respect to the centre-to-centre distance between the rail heads is __________

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GATE CE 2019 · Paper 2

Civil Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Civil Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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2 marks

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