Pavement Design and Highway construction
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Pavement Design and Highway construction Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Pavement Design and Highway construction (subject code 3150613) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 2 units, covering 19 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3150613)Unit 1 Pavement Materials and Characterization
- Soil : Characterization for Earthwork
- Effective CBR, Concept of Modulus of resilient of subgrade
- Aggregate :Granular Subbase and Base layer - road aggregates used for WBM, WMM, Aggregate used in Bituminous layer
- Its characteristics
- gradation- Fullers equation
- physical properties requirements for rural road and high-volume road.
- Concept of Modulus of resilient of sub base and base course as per IRC 37, Bituminous material : Bitumen
- Modified bitumen
- bituminous mix – Volumetrics
- concept of modulus of resilient per IRC 37, Quality control and Quality Assurance plan for highway
Unit 2 Design of Highway Pavement
- Flexible Pavement: Factors affecting pavement design
- EWLF, VDF, Stress analysis – Boussinesq’s theory
- Burmister’s two- and three-layer theory
- Flexible pavement design as performance criteria- subgrade rutting criteria and fatigue cracking criteria for bituminous layer
- Pavement design using IITPAVE software for granular base and granular sub base
- cementitious base
- cementitious sub base
- Overview on Pavement design for low volume road using locally available material as per IRC SP-72
- Drainage consideration in pavement design 15 BE Semester-V Subject Code: 3150613
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