Advanced Pavement Design and Construction
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Pavement Design and Construction (subject code 3726505) as prescribed for CE · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 50 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 (3726505)Unit 1 Pavement Materials
- Component parts of pavements
- Types of Pavements – Rigid
- Basic characteristics of materials used in pavements
- Factors Affecting Pavement Design: Variables considered in pavement design
- Classification of axle types
- standard and legal axle loads
- tyre pressure
- contact pressure
- EWLF and EAL concepts
- Traffic analysis: ADT, AADT
- truck factor
- growth factor
- lane distribution factor
- directional distribution factor and vehicle damage factor
Unit 2 Stresses in Flexible Pavements
- Fundamental design concepts
- Layered system concepts
- Design of Flexible Pavements
- 7 20 Subject Code : 3726505 Subject : ADVANCED PAVEMENT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ESWL
- Tyre Pressure
- Other Factors
- Various Methods for Highway Design
- Mix Designs– Bituminous Mixes
- Marshall Stability Test
Unit 3 Design Of Flexible Pavement
- IRC method of flexible pavement design
- Asphalt Institute’s methods with HMA and other base combinations
- MEPDG method of flexible pavement design
- Design of flexible pavement shoulders
Unit 4 Stresses in Rigid Pavements
- Westergaard’s theory and assumptions
- Stresses due to curling
- stresses and deflections due to loading
- frictional stresses
- Stresses in dowel bars and tie bars
- Stress analysis in rigid pavements
- Design of Joints
- Temperature stresses
- Pre-stressed Concrete Pavements
Unit 5 Design Of Rigid Pavements
- IRC method of plain jointed and continuously reinforced rigid pavement design
- MEPDG method of rigid pavement design
- Design of rigid pavement shoulders
- Design of Joints
Unit 6 Highway Construction Methods
- Sub- Base
- Base and Surface Courses
- Bituminous Pavement Construction
- Cement Concrete Construction
- Materials for road construction
- Specification and tests
- Macadam construction
- surfacing and surface treatment
- Road Work in Desert
- Hilly Area in Problematic Situation
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