Principles And Practices Of Highway Engineering

Principles And Practices Of Highway Engineering by L. R. KADIYALI, N. B. LAL

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Book Summary:

Principles And Practices Of Highway Engineering, as a complete resource helps the aspirants be ready with conceptual understanding. It is an outcome of classroom tested notes by the author, refined over the years while teaching and guiding students. The number of aspirants appearing for the GATE examination is increasing significantly every year, owing to multifaceted opportunities open to any good performer. Apart from giving the aspirant a chance to pursue an MTech from institutions like the IITs/NITs, a good GATE score can be highly instrumental in landing the candidate a plush public sector job, as many PSUs are recruiting graduate engineers on the basis of their performance in GATE. The students must have their own strategy, both for preparation and writing the examination and have to practice many difficult questions to score high. They study most part of the course design their graduation, but still everything has to be revised and requires practice. From a practice point of view, this book is very useful. In this book, the type, level and length of problems have been kept relevant and as close to the recent GATE trends as possible.

Audience of the Book :

This book Useful for Principles And Practices Of Highway Engineering Students.

Table of Content:

1. Highway Planning And Administration

2. Geometric Design Of Highways

3. Highway Project Preparation

4. Soil Engineering For Highways 

5. Drainage

6. Pavement Design And Construction

7. Highway Maintenance

8. Surface Characteristics

9. Special Roads

10. Roads In Special Areas

11. Highway Safety

12. Highway Economics

13. Machinery And Plant

14. Construction Management

15. Highway And The Environment

16. Air Transportation