Highway Maintenance
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Highway Maintenance Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Highway Maintenance (subject code 3356004) as prescribed for TE · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 27 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 (3356004)Unit 1 Pavement Evaluation
- 1.1. Methods of Pavement Evaluation
- 1.2. Visual Rating
- 1.3. Pavement Serviceability Index(PSI)
- 1.4. Roughness Measurements: Importance of smooth riding surface, measurement of road roughness, Towed Fifth Wheel Bump Integrator
- 1.5. Skid Resistance: Measurement, Importance, governing Factors
- 1.6. Pavement Deterioration Research
Unit 2 Road Inventorying
- 2.1. Road Inventorying: Features, Periodicity
- 2.2. Manual Methods of inventorying
- 2.3. Instrument-aided Inventorying
- 2.4. Computer-aided Road Data Bank System
Unit 3 Pavement Failures
- 3.1. Failures in Flexible Pavements: Typical Flexible Pavement Failures
- 3.2. Failures in Cement Concrete Pavements: Typical rigid pavement failures
Unit 4 Overlay Design and Construction
- 4.1. Overlay: Need, Types,
- 4.2. Overlay design methods for flexible pavements
- 4.3. Flexible overlay over flexible pavement by conventional design method
- 4.4. Overlay Design method by Benkelman beam Deflection studies
- 4.5. Benkelman beam method field Highway Maintenance 3356004 GTU/ NITTTR Bhopal/14-15 Gujarat State 3 studies
- 4.6. Overlay thickness design with data Falling Weight Deflection Method
- 4.8. TRRL procedure
- 4.9. Asphalt Institute Method
- 4.10. Types of rigid overlays
- 4.11. Overlay Design Methods for Rigid Pavements
- 4.12. Flexible overlays over rigid slabs
Unit 5 Maintenance of different types of Roads
- 5.1. Maintenance of Earth Roads, Gravel Roads, Water-bound Macadam Roads, Bituminous Surfaces, Cement Concrete Surfaces, Shoulders, Slopes of Embankments
- 5.2. Maintenance of Bridges and Culverts
- 5.3. Special Problems in Hill Road maintenance
- 5.4. Maintenance Management System
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