Pavement Construction, Maintenance & Management Detailed Syllabus for Highway Engineering M.Tech first year second sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Pavement Construction, Maintenance & Management M.Tech 2017-2018 (R17) first year second sem is as follows.
M.Tech. I Year II Sem.
Course Objectives:
- Being able to recognize and use current common pavement design procedures.
- Understanding common design and construction features important to the performance of both asphalt and concrete pavements.
- The ability to design and recognize specification and construction activities that can improve the performance of pavements.
- Evaluating the condition of pavements through surface condition surveys, smoothness, friction, load/deflection and other evaluation techniques.
- Understanding the basic components of pavement management systems and how they can be used to optimize funding expenditures.
- Communicating and promoting good road design and construction practices.
Course Outcomes:
- Select appropriate earth moving and compaction equipment depending upon the Requirement
- Prepare quality assurance and quality control plans in an attempt to construct Better Performing pavements
- Evaluate the pavements based on the functional and structural characteristics
- Understand constructions of non bituminous & bituminous & cement concrete Pavements for flexible & rigid pavements.
UNIT- I : Pavement management system: Components of PMS and their activities; Major steps in implementing PMS; Inputs; Design, Construction and Maintenance; Rehabilitation and Feedback systems; Examples of HDM and RTIM packages; Highway financing; Fund generation; Evaluating alternate strategies and Decision criteria ; Pavement Maintenance Management Components of Maintenance Management and Related Activities – Network and Project Level Analysis; Prioritization Techniques and Formulation of Maintenance Strategies.
UNIT- II : Pavement Inventories, Quality Control and Evaluation: Serviceability Concepts ;Visual Rating;Pavement Serviceability Index; Roughness Measurements ;Distress Modes – Cracking Rutting Etc; Pavement Deflection – Different Methods and BBD, Skid Resistance, Roughness, Safety – Aspects; Inventory System. Causes of Deterioration, Traffic and Environmental Factors, Pavement Performance Modeling Approaches and Methods of Maintaining WBM, Bitumen and Cement Concrete Roads, Quality Assurance; Quality Control – ISO 9000, Sampling Techniques – Tolerances and Controls related to Profile and Compaction
UNIT- III : Construction of Base, Subbase, Shoulders and Drain Roadway and Drain Excavation, Excavation and Blasting, Embankment Construction, Construction of Gravel Base, Cement Stabilised SubBases, WBM Bases, Wet Mix Construction; Crushed Cement Bases, Shoulder Construction; Drainage Surface, Turfing Sand Drains; Sand Wicks; Rope Drains, Geo- Textile Drainage; Preloading Techniques
UNIT- IV : Bituminous Construction and Maintenance: Preparation and Laying of Tack Coat; Bituminous Macadam,Penetration Macadam, Built up Spray Grout, Open Graded Premix, Mix Seal, Semi-Dense Asphalt Concrete-Interface Treatments and Overlay Construction, IRC Specifications,
UNIT- V : Cement Concrete pavement Construction and Maintenance: Cement Concrete Pavement Analysis – Construction of Cement Roads, Manual and Mechanical Methods, Joints in Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Pavement and Overlay Construction.
REFERENCES:
- Haas and Hudson , W. R. Pavement management systems –McGraw Hill publications
- Sargious, M. A. – Pavements and surfacing for highways and airports – Applied Science Publishers ltd
- Bridge and Pavement maintenance- Transportation Research Record no.800, TRB
- Shahin M. Y, 1994- Pavement management for airports, roads and parking lots
- Bent Thagesan, 1996- Highway and Traffic engineering for developing countries
- MORTH – Specifications
For all other M.Tech 1st Year 2nd Sem syllabus go to JNTUH M.Tech Highway Engineering 1st Year 2nd Sem Course Structure for (R17) Batch.
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