GATE CE · 2019 · CE
Question 48: Highway Pavements
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Question 48
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Tie bars of 12 mm diameter are to be provided in a concrete pavement slab. The working tensile stress of the tie bars is 230 MPa, the average bond strength between a tie bar and concrete is 2 MPa, and the joint gap between the slabs is 10 mm. Ignoring the loss of bond and the tolerance factor, the design length of the tie bars (in mm, round off to the nearest integer) is ________.
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2019CE
GATE CE 2019 · Paper 1
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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