Pavement Analysis & design
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The official GTU curriculum for Pavement Analysis & design (subject code 3714311) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 3 units, covering 29 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 (3714311)Unit 1 Introduction
- Components of pavement structure
- importance of subgrade soil
- properties on pavement performance
- Functions of subgrade
- sub base
- base course and wearing course
Unit 2 Materials for pavement
- Portland cement
- Portland cement concrete
- asphalt concrete
- testing procedures
- gradation and blending
- Portland cement based materials: mixture design
- Asphalt binder: refining process
- grading systems
- Asphalt concrete mixture design: fundamentals of mix design procedure
- mixture volumetric
- current mix design procedures
Unit 3 Analysis and stresses in Pavements
- Stresses in homogeneous masses and layered systems
- shear failures
- area of contact and tyre pressure
- Modulus of resilience or California Bearing Ratio (CBR) for different layers
- equivalent single wheel load
- equivalent stress and equivalent deflection criterion
- equivalent wheel load factors
- effects of dual wheels and tandem axles
- climatic and environmental factors
- Stresses due to Curling/bending
- Stresses and Deflections due to Loading
- Stresses due to