Paper Name: Pavement Design

Paper Code: CE 821 (a)

Weekly Load: L-3, T-1, P-0
Credit Points: 4
Full Marks: 100

Module Lecture/
no. Course content Tutorial

Principles of Pavement Design: Types of Pavements, Concept of pavement

1
performance, Structural and functional failure of pavement, Different types of 6L+2T
pavement performance, Different pavement design approaches.

Traffic Consideration in Pavement Design: Vehicle types, Axle configurations,

2
Contact shapes and contact stress distribution, Concept of standard axle load,
6L
Vehicle damage factor, Axle load surveys, Estimation of design traffic

Pavement Material Characterization: Identification of different type of

3
materials Field and laboratory methods for characterization of pavement 8L
materials
Analysis and Design of Flexible Pavements : Selection of appropriate
4 theoretical model for flexible pavements, Analysis of different layers of
6L+2T
flexible pavements based on linear elastic theory, Different methods of design
of flexible pavements, IRC guidelines(IRC-37)
Analysis and Design of Rigid Pavements : Selection of appropriate theoretical
5 models for rigid pavements, Analysis of wheel load stresses, curling,
6L+2T
temperature differential, Critical stress combinations, Different methods of
design of rigid pavements, IRC guidelines (IRC-58)
Pavement Overlay Designs : Overlay design as per Indian Roads Congress
6
guidelines (IRC-81), Overlay design as per AASHTO-1993 guidelines, Recycling 4L
of flexible and rigid pavements.
Total 36L+6T

No. of Weeks Required 14

No. of weeks in hand 2

References:

Sl no. Name Author Publishers

1 Principles of Pavement Design E.J.Yoder and M.W. Wiley
Witczak
2 Pavement Analysis and Design Y. H. Huang PHI
3 Highway Engineering Khanna and Justo Nem Chand
4 IRC-37, IRC-58, IRC-73, IRC-81, IRC-106 Indian Roads Congress
and other relevant IRC codes