Mapua Institute of Technology

CE 122. Traffic and Highway Engineering

Quiz #1
Section B3
February 8, 2017

1. A car is traveling at 45 km/h on a level poor pavement and dry condition. The car has frontal area of 2.0
m2, and weighs 12 KN. The wheelbase is 3 m. The center of gravity is 660 mm above the roadway
surface and 1.6 m behind the front axle. The cars engine is producing 120 N-m of torque and is in a
gear of reduction ratio of 5 to 1, the wheel radius is 500 mm and the mechanical efficiency of the
driveline is 75%. Find the safe acceleration that driver should attain if the car is (a) rear-wheel drive?
(40 points)

2. A front-wheel drive car weighs 13 kN. It has a 2.9-m wheelbase and the center of gravity located 550 mm
above the roadway surface and 680 mm behind the front axle. With Cd= 0.28, driveline slippage of 3%,
mechanical efficiency is 80% and the wheel radius is 500-mm. The gear reduction ratio is 6 to 1. The
cars torque/engine speed curve is given by
M e 9n e 0.009n e2
If the car is on a paved roadway at a 3000 altitude and on a good and dry condition, determine its
maximum acceleration. (40 points)

3. A car is traveling at 110 km/h. It has a wheelbase of 3.2 m with the center of gravity located 1 m from the
rear axle and 650 mm from the point of contact of the pavement and the tyres. The car is traveling on a
road that is of poor and dry condition. What is the maximum breaking force and percent allocated to the
rear breaks? (20 points)

Reference Tables
Table 2.1 Typical values of air density under specified atmospheric conditions
Altitude (m) Temperature (oC) Pressure (kPa) Air density
(kg/m3)
0 15.0 101.4 1.2256
1500 9.7 84.4 1.0567
3000 -4.5 70.1 0.9096

Table 2.4 Typical values of coefficients of road adhesion

Pavement Coefficient of road adhesion
Max Slide
Good, dry 1.00 0.80
Good, wet 0.90 0.60
Poor, dry 0.80 0.55
Poor, wet 0.60 0.30
Packed snow/ice 0.25 0.10