Traffic and Highway Engineering
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Author: Garber, Nicholas J.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 21, Problem 10P
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Thevalue of skid number and to characterize the pavement type.
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The braking distance of a car from 90 km/h is 40 m assuming the pavement is level.
(a) if the pavement is with 5° inclination, what will be the braking distance (in meter) of the car going up from 90km/h?
(b) and if the car is going down at 6% inclination, what is its braking distance (in meter) from 90km/h?
Note: Assume the breaking force is not dependent of the grade.
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O 52.34
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Determine the thickness of the flexible pavement for a wheel load of 50KN, if the allowable
bearing pressure on the base of the pavement is 0.15MPa and the equivalent radius of the
contact area of the tires is equal to 165mm. answer should be in mm.
Compute the thickness of a flexible pavement for a wheel load of 50 kN, if the allowable
bearing pressure on the base of the pavement is 0.15 MPa and the equivalent radius of the contact
area of the tires is equal to 165 mm.
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