Syllabus - Advance Pavement Design (CE 603(C))

Equivalent Single Wheels Load concepts and applications, Relationship between wheel arrangements and loading effects, tyre contact area, Effect of load repetition, Effect of transient loads, Impact of moving loading, Factors to be considered in Design of pavements, Design wheel load, soil, climatic factors, pavement component materials, Environmental factors, Special factors such as frost, Freezing and thawing.

Flexible Pavements : Component parts of the pavement structures and their functions, stresses in flexible pavements, Stress distribution through various layers, Boussinesque’s theory , Burmister’s two layered theory, methods of design, group index method, CBR method, Burmister’s method and North Dakota cone method.

Rigid Pavements: Evaluation of subgrade, Modulus-K by plate bearing test and the test details, Westergaard’s stress theory stresses in rigid pavements, Temperature stresses, warping stresses, frictional stresses, critical combination of stresses, critical loading positions.

Rigid pavement design: IRC method, Fatigue analysis, PCA chart method. AASHTO Method, Reliability analysis. PAVEMENT JOINTS: Types of joints, contraction and warping joints, dowel bars and tie bars, Temperature reinforcements, filling and sealing of joints.

Evaluation and Strengthening of Existing Pavements: Benkleman beam method, Serviceability Index Method. Rigid and flexible overlays and their design procedures.