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1. A horizontal curve with a radius of 800ft connects the tangents of a two-lane highway with a design superelevation of 0.06 and a coefficient of side friction of 0.14. Lanes are to be 12-feet wide and there is no median. Please calculate: a) What is the speed limit to be posted for a vehicle traversing this curve

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Answer:

vmax=72.59m/s

Explanation:

To solve this problem we use

[tex]v_{max}=\sqrt{Rg\frac{sin\alpha +f_{f}cos\alpha }{cos\alpha-f_{f}sin\alpha}}[/tex]

where R is the radius of the curve, g is the gravity constant, α is the degree of superelevation, ff is the friction coefficient. By replacing we have

[tex]v_{max}=\sqrt{(800+6)(32.2)\frac{sin(0.06)+0.14cos(0.06)}{cos(0.06)-0.14sin(0.06)}}=72.59\frac{m}{s}[/tex]

where we have taken into account that R=800+6 due to the 12-feet of the Lanes, but we take one half, because we assume the car is at the center of the Lane.

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Answer: V = 72.05 ft/s

Explanation: Please find the attached file for the solution

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