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This document provides 9 multi-part homework problems related to highway design and curve calculations. It includes computing curve lengths, distances, angles, stationing, radii, tangents, and more based on given information about highway curves and their properties. Solutions require detailed drawings and step-by-step working to obtain the correct final answers. Parts of each problem are worth different percentages based on completeness and correctness of the solutions.

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Highway Answer

This document provides 9 multi-part homework problems related to highway design and curve calculations. It includes computing curve lengths, distances, angles, stationing, radii, tangents, and more based on given information about highway curves and their properties. Solutions require detailed drawings and step-by-step working to obtain the correct final answers. Parts of each problem are worth different percentages based on completeness and correctness of the solutions.

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Highway (1st Homework)

I. Provide the necessary answers with complete drawing and complete solution.

25% - completeness, cleanliness, accuracy, detailed solution

75% - correctness of solution and final answer

1. A 5° curve intersects a property line CD at point D. The back tangent intersects the property line at
point C which is 105.27m from the P.C. which is at station 2 + 040. The angle that the property line CD
makes with the back tangent is 110°50’.

a. Compute the length of curve from the P.C. to the point of intersection of the line from the
center of the curve to point C and the curve.
b. Compute the distance CD. Hint: Angle COD < 10°, where O is the center of the curve.
c. Compute the stationing of point D on the curve.

2. A simple curve have tangents AB and BC intersecting at a common point B. AB has an azimuth of 180°
and BC has an azimuth of 230°. The stationing of the point of curvature at A is 10 + 140.26. If the degree
of the curve is 4°,

a. Compute the length of the long chord.


b. Compute the tangent distance AB of the curve.
c. Compute the stationing of a point “x” on the curve on which a line passing through the center of
the curve makes an angle of 58° with the line AB, intersects the curve at point “x”.

3. A simple curve has a radius of 286.48m. Its distance from PC to PT along the curve is equal to 240m.

a. Compute the central angle of the curve.


b. Compute the distance from the mid-point of the long chord to the mid-point of the curve.
c. Compute the area bounded by the tangents and the portion outside the simple curve.

4. The offset distance of the simple curve from the PT to the tangent line passing through the PC is equal
to 120.20m. The stationing of PC is at 2 + 540.26. The simple curve has an angle of intersection equal to
50°.

a. Compute the degree of the curve.


b. Compute the external distance.
c. Compute the length of the chord.

5. A simple curve connects two tangents AB and BC with bearings N 85˚30’ E and S 68˚30’ E respectively.
Point D along line AB has a coordinate of 20100 N and 20100 E while point E along line BC has
coordinates of 20086.55 N and 20184.27 E.

a. Find the distance of line BD.


b. Solve for the degree of simple curve that shall be tangent to the three lines AB, DE and BC.
c. If point D is at station 1 + 052.87, determine the stationing of PT.

6. A simple curve connects two tangents AB and BC with bearings N 85˚30’ E and S 68˚30’ E respectively.
If the stationing of the vertex is 4 + 360.2 and the stationing of PC is 4 + 288.4:

a. Determine the radius.


b. Determine the external distance.
c. Determine the middle ordinate.
d. Determine the chord distance.
e. Determine the length of the curve.

7. The tangent thru the PC has a direction due north and the tangent through the PT has a bearing of N
50˚ E. It has a radius of 200m. Given that the stationing of PC is at 12 + 060:

a. Compute the length of the subtangent.


b. Compute the long chord of the curve.
c. If a line making an angle of 62˚ with the tangent thru PC intersects the curve at point B, what is
the stationing of B if this line passes through the center of the curve?

8. The deflection angles of two intermediate points R and S on the curve measured from the tangent
passing through the PC are 6˚15’ and 12˚15’, respectively. The chord distance between R and S is 20m,
while the long chord is 100m.

a. Compute the radius of the curve.


b. Compute the angle of intersection of the simple curve.
c. Compute the tangent distance.

9. A simple curve having a radius of 229.18m has a back tangent of N 28˚ E and a forward tangent of N
66˚ E. A property line running parallel to the back tangent, with an offset distance of 10m from the back
tangent, crosses the curve. If the PC of the curve is at Sta. 10 + 120.60:

a. What is the deflection angle at the point of intersection of the property line and the curve,
measured from the tangent at Sta. 10 + 120.60?
b. What is the stationing at the point of intersection of the property line and the curve?
c. Compute the chord distance from PC to the point of intersection of the property line and the
curve.

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