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GATE 2022 MN – Question 27

Mining Methods and Machinery · Mining Machinery · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Choose the haul-road pavement layers from top to bottom.

  1. Wearing course → Base → Subbase → Subgrade
  2. Wearing course → Subbase → Base → Subgrade
  3. Wearing course → Subgrade → Subbase → Base
  4. Wearing course → Base → Subgrade → Subbase

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Correct answer: (A) Wearing course → Base → Subbase → Subgrade

Explanation

The wearing course directly receives tyres and protects the structural base. Below the base, the subbase spreads loads and separates/drains the pavement above the prepared natural subgrade. Thus the correct descending order is wearing course, base, subbase, subgrade, A.

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