Paper format. National Examinations, May 2014 — 98-Civ-B7 Highway Engineering. Three hours, open book, any non-communicating calculator permitted. Six questions are printed; a total of five solutions is required and all questions are of equal value (20 marks each). The grading scheme printed on page 1 gives the sub-part split for every question. Note 2 of the paper states that any data required but not given may be assumed — this solution set exercises that permission twice (a Manning roughness in Q1 and an aggregate bulk specific gravity in Q5) and says so explicitly each time. All six questions are solved here, because the set is a study resource rather than an examination script.
Reference texts.
- Garber, N. J. & Hoel, L. A., Traffic and Highway Engineering, 5th ed. — stationing, grades, horizontal and vertical curves (Ch. 3 and Ch. 15).
- Mamlouk, M. S. & Zaniewski, J. P., Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers, 4th ed. — aggregate moisture states, asphalt volumetrics, portland cement concrete pavements (Ch. 5, Ch. 7, Ch. 9).
- Asphalt Institute, MS-2 Asphalt Mix Design Methods, 7th ed. — mix design objectives, Superpave gradation control points, volumetric definitions.
- Transportation Association of Canada, Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads and Pavement Asset Design and Management Guide — the Canadian practice framework for alignment and for jointed concrete pavement.
- Chow, V. T., Open-Channel Hydraulics (1959) and FHWA HDS-5, Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, 3rd ed. — Manning's equation, roughness coefficients, culvert inlet- and outlet-control profiles.
- ASTM C127 / C128 and CSA A23.2 — aggregate specific gravity and absorption test methods.
