CE-502 · Transportation Engineering- II/Official Syllabus
Transportation Engineering- II (CE-502) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Highway planning, Alignment & Geometric Design
- Principles of highway planning
- road planning in India and financing of roads
- classification patterns
- Requirements, Engg. Surveys for highway location
- Cross sectional elements- width, camber, super-elevation, sight distances, extra widening at curves
- horizontal and vertical curves, numerical problems
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Unit 2
Bituminous & Cement Concrete Pavements
- Design of flexible pavements
- design of mixes and stability
- WBM, WMM, BM, IBM
- surface dressing
- interfacial treatment- seal coat, tack coat, prime coat
- wearing coats
- grouted macadam
- bituminous concrete specification, construction and maintenance
- Advantages and disadvantages of rigid pavements
- general principles of design
- types, construction, maintenance and joints, dowel bars, tie bars
- Brief study of recent developments in cements concrete pavement design, fatigue and reliability
3
Unit 3
Low Cost Roads, Drainage of Roads, Traffic Engg. & Transportation Planning
- Principles of stabilization, mechanical stabilization, requirements, advantages, disadvantages and uses, quality control
- macadam roads-types, specifications, construction, maintenance and causes of failures
- Surface and sub-surface drainage
- highway materials: properties and testing etc.
- Channelised and unchannelised intersections
- at grade & grade separated intersections, description
- rotary-design elements, advantages and disadvantages
- marking, signs and signals, street lighting
- Principles of planning, inventories, trip generation, trip distribution, model split, traffic assignment, plan preparation
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Unit 4
Airport Planning, Runway & Taxiway
- Airport site selection
- aircraft characteristic and their effects on runway alignments
- windrose diagrams
- basic runway length and corrections
- classification of airports
- Geometrical elements: taxi ways and runways, pattern of runway capacity
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Unit 5
Airport, Obstructions, Lightning & Traffic control
- Zoning regulations
- approach area, approach surface-imaginary, conical, and horizontal
- Rotating beacon, boundary lights, approach lights, runway and taxiway lighting etc.
- instrumental lending system, precision approach radar, VOR enroute traffic control
Laboratory Experiments
- Aggregate Crushing Value Test
- Determination of aggregate impact value
- Determination of Los Angeles Abrasion value
- Determination of California Bearing Ratio values
- Determination of penetration value of Bitumen
- Determination of Viscosity of Bituminous Material
- Determination of softening point of bituminous material
- Determination of ductility of the bitumen
- Determination of flash point and fire point of bituminous material
- Determination of Bitumen content by centrifuge extractor
- Determination of stripping value of road aggregate
- Determination of Marshall stability value for Bituminous mix
- Determination of shape tests on aggregate
Reference Books
- Highway Engineering — Gurucharan Singh
- Principles of Pavement Design — E.J. Yoder, M.W. Witzech
- Highway Engineering — O’Fleherty
- Highway Engineering — S.K. Khanna, C.E.G. Justo
- Airport Planning & Design — S.K. Khanna, M. G. arora
- Airport Planning — Foresch, Charles
- The Planning & Design of Airports — Horonjeff Robert
- Principles and Practice of Highway Engg. — Sharma, Sharma
- Analysis and Design of Pavements — Haung
- Relevant IRC & IS codes
- Laboratory Mannual — Dr. S.K. Khanna
- Highway Engg. — Hews, Oglesby
- Highway Material — Walker
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