Skip Top Navigation

You are here: Home > Publications > Engineering Publications

Highway Engineering Field Formulas

Description: The Highway Engineering Field Formulas provides formulas for laying out horizontal and vertical highway curves, formulas for roadway cross slopes and shoulders, and mathematical equations for areas and volumes.

Individual Chapters

  • Date Originally Published: March, 2008
  • Publication Number: M 22-24
  • Last Modified: March, 2008
  • Version: 1996
  • Manual Manager: Design Office
  • Originator: Engineering and Environmental Programs
  • # of Pages: 36
  • Subject:
  • Keywords: field formulas
  • Related Publications: Highway Engineering Field Tables 1984 M 22-23

Highway Engineering Field Formulas Individual Chapters

Contents  (pdf 17 KB)


Nomenclature for Circular Curves (pdf 15 KB)

Circular Curve Equations (pdf 15 KB)

Simple Circular Curve (pdf 22 KB)

Degrees of Curvation to Various Radii (pdf 14 KB)

Nomenclature for Vertical Curves (pdf 10 KB)

Vertical Curve Equations (pdf 19 KB)

Nomenclature for Nonsymmentrical Curves (pdf 10 KB)

Nonsymmetrical Vertical Curve Equations (pdf 16 KB)

Determining Radii of Sharp Curves (pdf 15 KB)


Distance from Finished Shld. to Subrade Shld and Slope Equivalents (pdf 21 KB)

Areas of Plane Figures (pdf 62 KB)

Surfaces and Volumes of Solids (pdf 88 KB)

Trigonometric Functions for all Quadrants (pdf 14 KB)

Triginometric Functions (pdf 14 KB)

Right Triangle (pdf 16 KB)

Oblique Triangle (pdf 20 KB)

Conversion Factors (pdf 15 KB)

Metric Conversion Factors (pdf 12 KB)


Land Surveying Conversion Table (pdf 14 KB)

-Steel Tape Temperature Corrections

-Temperature Conversions

Less Common Conversion Factors (pdf 14 KB)

-Water Constants

-Cement Constants

Multiplication Factor Table (pdf 16 KB)

-Recommended Pronunciations

Reinforcing Steel (pdf 12 KB)


This abstract was last modified April 29, 2009


Copyright WSDOT © 2009