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A road in a hilly terrain is to be laid at a gradient of 4.5%. A horizontal curve of radius 100 m is laid at a location on this road. Gradient needs to be eased due to combination of curved horizontal and vertical profiles of the road. As per IRC, the compensated gradient (in %, round off to one decimal place), is ________.

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GATE CE 2020 · Paper 1

Civil Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Civil Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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1 mark

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