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Title
Curing of Cement Concrete Pavements
Maintenance of Bituminous Surfaces of Highways
Road Markings
Road Signs

Construction of a Ghat Road From Bodinayakanur to Bodimettu"; Paper No. 257 by

E.C.Chandrasekharan
Design Tables for Horizontal Curves for Highways
Dimensions and Weights of Road Design Vehicles
General Guidelines About the Equipment for Bituminous Surface Dressing
Geometric Design Standards for Rural (Non-Urban) Highways
Geometric Design Standards for Urban Roads in Plains
Guidelines for Capacity of Roads in Rural Areas
Guidelines for Capacity of Urban Roads in Plain Areas
Guidelines for Design of Causeways and Submersible Bridges
Guidelines for Design of Horizontal Curves for Highways and Design Tables
Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment of Highway Projects
Guidelines for Evaluation of Load Carrying Capacity of Bridges
Guidelines for Selection, Operation and Maintenance of Bituminous Hot Mix Plant
Guidelines for Surface Evenness of Highway Pavements
Guidelines for the Design of High Embankments
Guidelines for the Design of Flexible Pavements
Guidelines for the Design of Interchanges in Urban Areas
Guidelines for the Design of Plain Jointed Rigid Pavements for Highways
Guidelines for the Use of Soil-Lime Mixes in Road Construction
Guidelines for Traffic Prediction on Rural Highways
Guidelines for Use of Fly Ash in Road Embankments
Guidelines for Wet Mix Macadam
Guidelines on Accommodation of Utility Services on Roads in Urban Areas
Guidelines on Bulk Bitumen Transportation and Storage Equipment
Guidelines on Design and Installation of Road Traffic Signals
Guidelines on Quality Systems for Roads
Guidelines on Road Drainage
Guidelines on Safety in Road Construction Zones
Guidelines on Use of Polymer and Rubber Modified Bitumen in Road Construction
Guidelinnes on Maintenance of Road Rollers
Highway Safety Code
Manual For Design, Construction & Maintenance of Gravel Roads
Manual for Survey, Investigation and Preparation of Road Projects
Proforma for Record of Test Values of Locally Available Pavement Construction Materials
Recommendations about the Alignment Survey and Geometric Design of Hill Roads
Recommendations for the Sizes for Each Type of Road Making Machinery to Cater to the
General Demand of Road Works
Recommended Practice for Bituminous Penetration Macadam

Recommended Practice for Lime Flyash Stabilised Soil Base/Sub-Base in Pavement

Construction
Recommended Practice for Sand - Bitumen Base Courses
Recommended Practice for Sight Distance on Rural Highways
Recommended Practice for Treatment of Embankment Slopes for Erosion Control
Recommended Practice for Use and Upkeep of Equipment, Tools and Appliances for
Bituminous Pavement Construction
Route Marker Signs for National Highways
Route Marker Signs for State Routes
Rural Roads Manual
Seminar on Bituminous Roads: Design and Construction Aspects ; proceedings , New Delhi August 25-26,1994
Seminar on Design, Construction & Maintenance of Hill Roads: proceedings; Shimla, June 1920, 1995
Seminar on Modernisation of Highways; proceedings, New Delhi, May 17-19,
Specification for Dense Bituminous Macadam
Specification for Priming of Base Course with Bituminous Primers
Standard for Vertical and Horizontal Clearances of Overhead Electric Power and
Telecommunication Lines as Related to Roads
Standrad Specification and Code of Practice for Prime and Tack Coat
Standards for Road-Rail Level Crossings
State of the Art: Compaction of Earthwork and Subgrades
State of the Art: High Embankments on Soft Ground - Part A - Stage Construction
State of the Art: High Embankments on Soft Ground - Part B - Ground Improvement
Tentative Guidelines for the use of Lime-Fly Ash Concrete as Pavement Base or Sub-Base
Tentative Guidelines for the use of Low Grade Aggregates and soil Affregate Mixtures in
Road Pavement Construction
Tentative Guidelines on the Provision of Speed Breakers for Control of Vehicular Speeds on
Minor Roads
Tentative Recommendations on the Provision of Parking Spaces for Urban Areas
Tentative Specification for Bituminous Concrete (Asphaltic Concrete) for Airfield Pavements
Tentative Specification for Bituminous Macadam (Base & Binder Course)
Tentative Specification for Bituminous Surface Dressing Using Precoated
Aggregates
Tentative Specification for Built-Up Spray Grout
Tentative Specification for Single Coat Surface Dressing Using Cationic Bitumen
Emulsion
Tentative Specification for Two Coat Bituminous Surface Dressing
Tentative Specification for Two-Coat Surface Dressing Using Cationic Bitumen
Emulsion
Tentative Specifications for Bitumen Mastic Wearing Courses
Tentative Specifications for Stone Matrix Asphalt
Tentative Specifications for the Construction of Stabilized Soil Roads with Soft
Aggregate in Areas of Moderate and High Rainfall
Type Design for Boundary Stones
Type Design for Highway Kilometre Stones

Type Design for 200-Metre Stones

Type Design for Pick-Up Bus Stops on Rural (i.e. Non-Urban) Highways
Vertical Curves for Highways

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Table 3.1. Suitability of embankment materials

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Type of Work

Embankment upto 3 mts. height, not

subjected to extensive flooding

Embankment exceeding 3 mts. height or

embankment of any height subject to
long periods of inundations

Sub grade and earthen shoulders /verges

/backfill

Table 3.2. Compaction requirement for embankment and sub g

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Sub grade and earthen shoulders
Embankment
Expansive Clays
Sub grade and 500 mm portion
just below the sub grade
Remaining portion of
embankment

uitability of embankment materials

Maximum laboratory dry unit weight when tested as per
IS: 2720 (Part VIII)
Not less than 15.2 kN/cu.m
Not less than 17.5 kN/cu.m
Not less than 17.5 kN/cu.m

equirement for embankment and sub grade

Relative compaction as percentage of maximum
laboratory dry density as per IS:2720 (Part VIII)
Not less than 97
Not less than 95
Not allowed
Not less than 90