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  1. A pavement designer has arrived at a design traffic of 100 million standard axles for a newly developing national highway as per IRC:37 guidelines using the following data:
    Design life = 15 years
    Commercial vehicle count before pavement construction = 4500 vehicles/day
    Annual traffic growth rate = 8%.
    The vehicle damage factor used in the calculation was
    1. 1.53
    2. 2.24
    3. 3.66
    4. 4.14
Correct Option: B

msa =
365A[(1 + r)h]
× F
r

100 × 106 = 365 × 45001 +
8
15 - 1
100
8
100

∴ F = 2.24



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