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The stopping sight distance
does not depend on?

Length of vehicle
The slope of fill surfaces
shall be no steeper than is
safe for intended use. Fill
slopes shall be no steeper
than.
50 %
Excavations in open cuts in
excess of ________ depth
shall have adequately
designed shoring on
support.
1.5
If the footprint area of
structure is 500 m2 the
minimum number of
borehole/s.
2
A mode of design for
flexural members in which
concrete fails first.
Over-reinforced
The maximum spacing of main
reinforcements for slabs as
prescribed by design code is:
3h or 450 mm
Stressing high-strength steel
wires before concrete
hardens.
Pre tensioning
Stressing high-strength steel
after the concrete has been
cast and has attained
sufficient strength.
Post tensioning
Loss of stress that takes
place with the passage
of time as concrete is
held at constant strain.
relaxation
Section 302.2.2 of the National
Structural Code of the Philippines
(NSCP) provides that the slope of
cut surfaces
of the ground shall be no steeper
than is safe for intended use and
shall be no steeper than:
1 unit vertical: 2 unit
horizontal
It shall be considered to exist
where the horizontal dimension
of the lateral-force-resisting
system in any storey
is more than 130% of that in an
adjacent storey.
Vertical Geometric
Irregularity
What is a spiral curve, as used
in surveying?
A spiral curve is a curve with
a uniformly varying radius.
It states that the surface
area of a solid is equal to the
arc length multiplied by the
circumference defined by the
centroid of the arc length.
Pappus’ First theorem
It is the maximum number of
vehicles, which have a reasonable
expectation of passing over a given
section of
lane or roadway in one direction or
in both directions during one hour
under prevailing road and traffic
conditions.
Road Capacity
In accordance with the
Unified Soils Classification
System, a soil grain having a
size greater than No. 200 sieve
opening (0.074 mm) but less
than that of a No. 4 sieve (4.75
mm opening) is called
sand
Find the loudness of a sound
that has an intensity 10,000
times the threshold of
hearing for the average
human
ear.
40 decibels
An earthquake in San
Francisco in 1991 was reported
to have a Richter number of
6.90. How does the intensity
of the earthquake compare
with the reference intensity?
7.94x10^6
During the baseball practice,
a batter hits a very high fly
ball and runs in a straight
line and catches it. Which has
the greater displacement,
the play or the ball?
The player and the ball have
the same displacement.
A balance dirt job is one in
which:
cut and fill volumes are equal
Signs which provide means of displaying
essential traffic information on wide
multi-lane roads, where some
degree of lane use control is required,
or where side-of-road clearance is
insufficient to accommodate a road side
sign.
Overhead signs
Light retro-reflecting
devices mounted at the side of
the roadway, in series, to
indicate the roadway
alignment.
Delineators
Warning devics used to
supplement other controls and
devices necessary to alert
motorists of construction and
maintenance activities or
obstrructions in the roadway.
Flashing Lamps
Freeway control systems are intended to reduce
congestion and queuing delays on freeways. Freeway
control
system components currently deployed includes the
following:
I. Ramp metering
II. Variable message signs
III. Incident detection
IV. Response system
V. Radio communication systems.
all of the above
The highest tide which
occurs at intervals of half a
lunar month when the sun,
moon and earth fall in line.
Spring tides
The pressure exerted onto a
liquid is transmitted equally
and undiminished to all
portions of the liquid. This
principle in fluid mechanics is
known as principle of?
Pascal
In any stream flowing
steadily without friction
the total energy contained is
the same at every point in its
path of
flow. This principle is
attributed to?
Bernoulli
The material deforms
considerably even with a
slight increase in stress.
Yielding
The material undergoes
changes in its structure
resulting in increased
resistance to further
deformation.
strain hardening
On what days of the week can
the first day of a century
fall?
(The first day of the
twentieth century was Jan. 1,
1901)
Monday
Stopping sight distance and
frictional coefficients are
inversely proportional to
each other
If Poisson’s ratio of a
material is 0.5, modulus of
elasticity of the
material is
3 times the shear modulus
This distance between
common points on successive
vehicles is known as
Headways
It is the appearance of a
powdery material on the
surface of a newly hardened
concrete slab.
Dusting
The difference between the
actual travel time and a given
segment of a transportation
system and some travel time
for that segment
Delay
It is longitudinal surface
depression in the wheel paths
of an asphalt pavement.
Rutting
These signs instruct road
users to meet certain traffic
rule requirements or road
conditions.
Special Instruction signs
It is the cracking, breaking
and chipping of slab edges at
the longitudinal and
transverse joints.
Spalling
The property of a soil which
permits water to percolate
through it, is called.
Permeability
A line joining the points of
highest elevation of water in
a series of vertical open pipes
rising from a pipeline in
which
water flows under pressure
is referred to as.
hydraulic gradient
If one input in the production of a
commodity is increased while
other
inputs are held fixed, a point will
eventually be reached at which
additions of
the input yield progressively
smaller.
Law of diminishing returns
The speed at which vehicles
are presumed to travel
through the coordinated
signal system is known as:
speed of progression
This refers to the maximum number
of passenger cars that can pass a
given point on a lane or roadway
during one hour under the most
nearly ideal
roadway and traffic conditions
which can possibly be attained.
Basic Capacity

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