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CE-603 (C) · Advance Pavement Design/Official Syllabus

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

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Unit 1

Equivalent Single Wheels Load concepts and applications

  • 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
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Unit 2

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
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Unit 3

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
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Unit 4

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
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Unit 5

Evaluation and Strengthening of Existing Pavements

  • Benkleman beam method
  • Serviceability Index Method
  • Rigid and flexible overlays and their design procedures

Reference Books

  • Principles of pavement design — E.J. Yoder, M.W. Witczak
  • AASHO Interim Guide for Design of Pavement Structures — AASHO — Washington, D.C.
  • Guidlines for Design of Rigid Pavements — Portland Cement Association — Washington
  • Conc. Roads Design & Construction
  • Modern Permanent Way — M. Srinivasan
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