Civil Engineering - Highway Engineering - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Highway Engineering - Section 4 (Q.No. 33)
33.
To prevent movement of moisture from subgrade to road pavement on embankments about 0.6 m to 1 m higher than water table, the thickness of cut off layer of coarse sand used, is
15 cm
20 cm
30 cm
45 cm
none of these.
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
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Akshay Patidar said:   7 years ago
In this Que.

The correct Answer is 0 cm. Because there is enough distance between subgrade and water-table.

But, If subgrade and Water- table both are at the same level then the thickness of cut off the layer of coarse sand is 15 cm.

Rock said:   7 years ago
Thanks @Jay.

Debojyoti Mondal said:   7 years ago
Option A is correct, thickness of this layer is 15 cm.

Jay Maharashtra said:   8 years ago
It is about 15 cm.

Reference: Rs Khurmi and Gupta.

Venu said:   9 years ago
What is the answer and how it will get?

Jogendra said:   9 years ago
What is the formula for solving this?

Maratha said:   1 decade ago
The, what is that equals? 10 or 7 cm?


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