Pavement Design and Evaluation
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The official GTU curriculum for Pavement Design and Evaluation (subject code 1721302) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 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 (1721302)Unit 5 Design of Flexible Pavements –ESWL, Tyre Pressure, Other Factors, Various
- Methods for Highway and Runways Design
Unit 6 Design of Rigid Pavements – EWLF, Other Factors Various Methods for
- Highways and Runways
- Design of Joints
- Temperature stresses
- Pre-stressed Concrete Pavements
Unit 7 Pavement evaluation and strengthening
- Failures in flexible and rigid pavements
- pavement evaluation
- deflection survey
- serviceability rating techniques
- strengthening techniques
- Practical work: List of tests/ practical/ tutorials are given below: Sr
- Test/ Practical/Tutorials 1 Plate Bearing Test. 2 Field CBR Test. 3 Pavement Evaluation by Benkelman Beam Method. 4 Road Unevenness Measurement by Bump-Integrator. 5 Valuation of Pavement Roughness by Roughometer / Profilometer. 6 Design of Flexible Pavements for Highway and Runway. 7 Design of Rigid Pavements For Highway and Runway
Unit 8 Design of Overlays. References
- E.J.Yoder and M.W.Witczak
- Principles of Pavement Design
- John Wiley and Sons
- New York
- Pavement Design 3
- Sharma & Shrama
- Principles and Practice of Highway Engg. 4
- Pavement Analysis and Design
- Prentice Hall
- Englewood Cliffs
- New Jersey, USA, 1993
- Highway Construction and Maintenance
- Soils, and Concretes
- Reston Publishing Company
- Reston VA, 1983. 7
- Longman Scientific and Technical
- Relevant IRC, BIS, AASHTO and PCA Specifications and Guidelines
Unit 9 Kadiyali L.R.and Lal, N. B., Principles & Practice of Highway Engineering,
- Khanna Publishers
Unit 12 F. L. Mannering, W. P. Kilareski and S. S. Washburn, Principles of Highway
- Engineering and Traffic Analysis
- Wiley India Pvt
- New Delhi