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__________ can take appreciable tensile stress.

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__________ can take appreciable tensile stress.

(a) Flexible pavement

(b) Semi-flexible pavement

(c) Rigid pavement

(d) Tar pavement

This question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Design of Flexible Pavements topic in section Design of Flexible & Rigid Pavement of Geotechnical Engineering II

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The correct answer is (c) Rigid pavement

The explanation: A rigid pavement can take appreciable tensile stress and is capable of bridging small weakness and depression in the sub-grade. The flexible pavements are able to resist only small tensile stresses.

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