UNIVERSAL COLLEGES OF PARAÑAQUE

Highway and Railroad

Engineering
PLATE NO. 2 (PRELIM)
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Problem 1:
• A rigid pavement is to be used to carry a wheel load of
53.5 kN, design the thickness of the pavement. The
allowable tensile stress of concrete is 1.38 MPa.
Sufficient dowels are used across the joints. (design the
thickness at center at the edge)
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Problem 2:
• Determine the thickness of a rigid pavement of the
proposed Nagtahan road to carry a max wheel load of 80
kN. Neglect effects of dowels, fc’ = 27.5 MPa. Allowable
tensile stress of concrete pavement is 0.06 fc’.
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Problem 3:
• A flexible pavement having a thickness of 46 mm carries
a static wheel load of “W”. The circular contact are of
time has an equivalent radius of 150 mm. If the load “W”
is assumed to be transmitted across a wide area of
subgrade at an angle of 45°, compute the value of the
wheel load “W” if the bearing stress of the base is 0.42
MPa.
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Problem 4:
• A 53.5 kN wheel load has a max tire pressure of 0.62
MPa. The pressure is to be uniformly distributed over the
area of tire contact on the roadway. Assuming subgrade
pressure is not to exceed 0.14 MPa, determine the
required thickness of flexible pavement structure,
according to the cone pressure distribution.