Highway Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Highway Engineering (subject code 4350606) as prescribed for CIVIL · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 14 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 (4350606)Unit 1 Highway Developments 1a. 1b. 1c. 1d. Explain Highway Development in India
- 1.1. Scope and Importance of Highway in India.
- 1.2. Road classification in India: Nagpur Plan, Bombay Plan, Lakhnow Plan.
- 1.3. Concept of Smart Highways.
- 1.4. Role of various agencies for planning, construction and maintenance of road (IRC, NHAI, R&B, MORTH, CRRI).
- 1.5. Funding system of state government and central government for the road construction and development.
Unit 2 Highway
- 2.1. Cross sectional elements: Right of Way, Width of Carriageway, Road Highway Engineering Course Code: 4350606 Geometric Design 2b. 2c. 2d. 2e. Explain road alignment. Draw various cross section of highway in embankment and cutting. Discuss various sight distance. Solve numerical based on highway geometry. Margins, Kerbs, Medians, Formation Width, Camber, Shoulders, Side Slope, Lateral and vertical clearance, Typical Cross- sections.
- 2.2. Road Alignment a) Horizontal Alignment: Design Speed, Super elevation, Horizontal curve, Widening on horizontal curve, Transition curve. b) Vertical Alignment: Road gradient, Vertical curves
- 2.3. Standard cross section of national highway in Embankment and Cutting.
- 2.4. Sight Distance: Stopping Sight Distance, Overtaking Sight Distance, Intermediate Sight Distance.
- 2.5. Simple Numerical based on sight distances.
Unit 6 Advances In Highway Engineering 6a. 6b. 6b. 6c. Know different highway
- 6.1. Brief overview of Highway Design Software: MX ROAD, IIT PAVED, IIT GRID.
- 6.2. Uses of various Recycled and new innovative materials in pavement construction.
- 6.3. Brief overview of bituminous mix design and marshal stability test.
- 6.4. Use of Bump Integrator, Benkelman Beam for pavement evaluation. Note: The UOs need to be formulated at the ‘Application Level’ and above of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy’ to accelerate the attainment of the COs and the competency.
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