Advances in Highway Material and Construction
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The official GTU curriculum for Advances in Highway Material and Construction (subject code 3721321) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 33 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 (3721321)Unit 1 High Performance Highway Construction Materials
- Use of waste materials: Fly ash, Slag
- Recyclable waste
- Other waste materials
- Modified bituminous materials PMB, EMB, NRMB
- IS requirements and testing procedures
- Concrete: introduction
- IS requirements
- mineral admixtures
- Advances in pavement material
- super pave
- micro surfacing etc
Unit 2 Highway Construction
- Principles of road construction
- preparation of embankment
- : Formation cutting in ordinary soil and hard rock Ground improvements
- construction procedure for GSB, DBM, SDBC etc. layers of roads
Unit 3 Bituminous pavement Construction
- seal coats
- bituminous-bituminous penetration macadam
- surface dressing
- premix carpet and bituminous concrete Recycling of bituminous pavement materials Construction of earthen
- gravel and water bound macadam
- wet mix macadam roads
Unit 4 Cement Concrete Pavement Construction
- procedure for construction of base and sub base
- tools and plants and required
- Types of construction joints
- Joints filler and sealer
- Vacuum dewatered pavement
Unit 5 Road Construction Machineries, Role of labor v/s machinery in road construction,
- Earthwork machinery
- Rock excavation machinery
- Transporting Equipment
- Compaction Equipment
- Bituminous concrete road equipment
- Cement Concrete road making Equipment
- Equipment Usage charges
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