Pavement Analysis & Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Pavement Analysis & Design (subject code ME02076081) as prescribed for GE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 31 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 (ME02076081)Unit 1 Introduction
- Types and component parts of pavements
- Factors affecting design and performance of pavements
- Highway and airport pavements
- field CBR, field plate load test
- modulus of sub grade reaction
- Resilient modulus
- Suitability of soil
- Compaction equipment and Compaction Control
Unit 2 Stresses and strains in flexible pavements
- Stresses and strains in an infinite elastic half space use of Boussinesq's equations - Burmister's two layer and three-layer theories
- Wheel load stresses
- various factors in traffic wheel loads
- Equivalent single wheel load of multiple wheels
- Repeated loads and EWL factors
Unit 3 Flexible pavement design methods for highways and airports
- semi-empirical and theoretical approaches
- design steps of the different pavement design methods including AASHTO
- Asphalt Institute
- Shell Methods
- IRC method of pavement design
Unit 4 Stresses in rigid pavements
- Types of stresses and causes
- Introduction to Westergaard's equations for calculation of stresses in rigid pavement due to the influence of traffic and temperature
- Considerations in rigid pavement analysis, EWL
- wheel load stresses
- warping stresses
- frictional stresses
- combined stresses
Unit 5 Rigid pavement design
- Design of cement concrete pavement for highways and runways
- Design of joints
- tie bars
- dowel bars
- IRC method of design
- Design of continuously reinforced concrete pavements
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