Unit 1 Pavement Maintenance & Management Process

10 lecture hours

• Application of system concepts to pavement management
• pavement management levels- Network & Project level
• functions - Data need
• Pavement life cycle
• assessment of pavement performance
• evaluation of pavement structural capacity
• distress & safety
• combined measures of pavement quality
• data management

Unit 2 Determining Present and Future Needs

11 lecture hours

• Establishing criteria – development of models for pavement deterioration – determining the future needs – rehabilitation and maintenance strategies – developing combined programmes for maintenance & rehabilitation

Unit 3 Project Level Design

12 lecture hours

• Framework for pavement design
• characterization of physical design inputs
• basic structural response models – variability
• reliability and risk – generating alternate design strategies
• rehabilitation design procedures
• Overlay design
• economic evaluation of alternate pavement design strategies – selection of optimal design strategy

Unit 4 Implementation

• Major steps in implementing PMS – pavement construction management & pavement maintenance management – information
• research needs – cost and benefit of pavement 12 CIVIL (TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING) (13) Subject Code: 3731308 w.e.f