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Inform and advise road users of directions, distances, routes, the location of services for road users and point of interest

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Guide signs

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To level a floor or layer of concrete with a straight edge using back and forth motion while moving across surface

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Screeding

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Process of proportioning , cement, water, aggregates, and additives prior to mixing called

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Batching

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Device mounted on a fixed support or portable support whereby a specific message is conveyed by means of work or symbols for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic

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Roadwork signs

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Cement, Aggregates, and water

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Bulk composition

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Written instruction detailing how the facility is to be constructed

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Specifications

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Wave generated in deep water, when reaching shoaling waters, charges not only its height but also in its length but the period will

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decrease

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Maximum wave height and wave period of the maximum wave height in wave train

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Significant wave

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When directly affected and generated by local winds, a wind wave is

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wind sea

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Failure of the stability of slopes, generally occurs along

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a curved surface

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Measures of congestion highway capacity, what will happen as density continues to increase

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speed declines

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Ways to avoiding traffic conflicts

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Grade separation
Time sharing
Space sharing

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The difference between the actual travel time of a given segment of a transportation system and some ideal travel time

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delay

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cracks approximately at right angles to the pavement

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Transverse crack

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Provision of safety sight distance

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Road: geometry, surface, topography, and illumination

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Provision of safety sight distance

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Friciton
Eye-height

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2.5 days (tides)

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Age of tides

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Usually a result of insufficient asphalt binder in the mix or stripping of asphalt from particles of aggregate

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Raveling

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The most important process to prepare concrete

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Batching

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A test to determine the relative consistency of concrete

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Slump test

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Circumstances or deviation from standard condition which could permit an occurrence or incident

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hazard

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The single most important environmental factor in the broad field of coastal engineering

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Wave

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Combination of the likelihood of an occurrence of a hazardous event and severity of injury or damage of health of the people, property and environment

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Risk

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Worst condition which should be considered in relation to the design of coastal defence

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combination of usually high sea level with severe wave action

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Which is more accurate parameter of traffic capacity
Density: Function of cars
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Concept of safe design for construction
Design Equipment On-site facilities manpower
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Occurs as concrete hardens, being greater in wet mixes
Shrinkage
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Single initial application of bituminous material
Prime coat
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ideal capacity of road in vehicles per hour
2000 veh/hr
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Satisfy the requirement for estimating expected activity times in a PERT network
Makes use of three estimates Puts the greatest weight on the most likely time Motivated by BETA distribution
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Stimuli fall into four categories
Mechanical Thermal Conductivity Chemical
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Standard practice of measuring vertical or zenith angles
Instrument is level Sight exactly on the target Slight direct and reverse
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Calculation of the probability that the critical path will be completed
Requires knowledge of the standard deviation
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Probability of a mechanism that will function satisfactorily
Reliability
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Objectives of proper compacting
Minimize settling Increase bearing Increase soil stability Reduce water penetration
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When train passes on curves, which have no super-elevation
inner side of outer rail
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Critical path
has the maximum expected time
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All normal curves are
Bell-shaped and symmetric
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Compress the bulk volume of concrete
Aggregates
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Signs used to guide drivers through a change in horizontal alignment of the road
Chevron signs
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The basic lane width appropriate for national road
3.35m
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Operating a motor vehicle on a street or highway can be complex and boring
Driving Task
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Any structure build into the sea but not parallel to the coast line
Pier
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Because concrete is unable to maintain a particular shape before it sets, it must be placed in a form or mold
Formworks
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What is the capacity requirement for all scaffoldings
At most, 4 times its own weight
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It is a measure of a material’s ability to dissipate or deaden mechanical vibrations
Damping
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It is an informal group discussion that focuses on a particular safety issue
Toolbox meeting
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A method of protecting employees from cave-ins form materials that could fall or roll from an excavation face or collapse of adjacent structures
Protective System
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A method of protecting workers from cave-ins by excavating the sides of an excavation to form one or series of horizontal steps
Benching
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A formal or legally binding agreement between 2 parties
Contract
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It occurs after the completion of construction and the resolution of the majority punchlist and commissioning issues
Turnover of a Project
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This drawing has elevation as its vertical axis, and horizontal distance as measures along the centerline
Profile
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The bucket volume contained within the bucket
Plate line capacity
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What is the reaction time to be used for the safety design? This value is applied to the whole range of design speeds.
2.5 seconds
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Is measure of a material’s ability to withstand cyclic (repeated) stresses.
Fatigue resistance
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In a horizontal angle layout, this is a procedure that involves turning the angle twice and making the line of sight each time at the point.
Double centering
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This is a source or situation with a potential cause to harm in terms of injury, ill health, damage to the environment or a combination of these.
Hazard
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Every construction project shall have a suitable construction safety and health program, which must be in accordance with these rules and other orders and issuance issued by the DOLE.
Unsafe act
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What is the color of the loading and unloading zone marking
Red
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Does not cause a contract change
Unforseen conditions
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If the standard deviation of a set of observation is 0, you can conclude:
that all observations are the same value
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It is considered to be the basic unit of travel behavior.
Trip
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It is the timing of signal in relationship to one another so that vehicles traveling at a determined speed can pass through the greens of successive signals.
Signal coordination
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It represents the component of vehicle weight which acts parallel to an inclined surface
Grade resistance
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These are circumstances or deviation from standard condition which could permit an occurrence of accident or incident is called
Unsafe condition
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On what days of the week can the first day of century fail? The first day of the 20th century was Jan.1, 1901.
Monday
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A measure of materials ability to resist indentation or penetration.
Hardness
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An increase in soil density of a cohesive soil resulting from the expulsion of water from the soils void spaces.
Consolidation
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Who is given authority to review reports of inspection, accident investigations and implementation of the program?
Health and Safety Committee
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The process of injecting any agent into soil or rock to increase its strength or stability, project foundations or reduce ground water.
Grouting
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Every construction project shall have a suitable ______, which must be in accordance with these rules, and other orders and issuances issued by the DOLE.
Construction Safety and Health Program.
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What treatments might be made to improve the level of service
realigning the roadway
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A benefit/cost analysis is to be performed to justify the installation of safety-related road improvements such as flexible barriers and breakaway poles.
Insurance records, state disability fund records, accepted federal standards, (basta panay pera)
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Produces the greatest possible error in your initial speed calculations
The coefficient of friction is more sensitive to error
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A line on a topographic map connecting points of equal elevation is known as
contour line
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Greens theorem is the basis for determining the
surface area of a construction site
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what is the preferred method to avoid negative stations in a construction document?
Station 0+00
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A simple random sample is defined by
The method of selection
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What are the sources of errors in making measurements
Natural Instrumental Personal
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Lifting capacity of a crane
Decreases with an increase radius
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Ideal capacity of road vehicles per hour
2000 veh/hr
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Number of vehicles per unit distance occupying a section of road way
Density
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Distance
Space headway
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Time
time headway
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Maximum speed
mean free speed

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