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Highway Engineering - Engineering

Q1:

The wall constructed for the stability of a back filling portion of a road on the down hill side, is known as

A retaining wall

B breast wall

C parapet wall

D all the above.

ANS:A - retaining wall

Basic difference is retaining wall is designed to resist backfill earth pressure and breast wall is resist for natural earthen slope of hilly area. So the answer is correct.