Rural Roads 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 Rural Roads M.Tech 2017-2018 (R17) first year second sem is as follows.
M.Tech. I Year II Sem.
Course Objectives: By the end of the course students will be able to:
- Link issues of poverty with rural access and explain the approaches taken by the Rural Roads Project
- Identify key lessons from the case study and Contrast lessons from the case study with their own country context
- Analyse the links between rural access, economic development and poverty alleviation.
Course Outcomes:
- Plan rural road network
- Design highway geometrics
- Justify the geometric design standards adopted for low volume roads
- Plan surveys, and prepare survey forms
- Understand the procedure for conducting safety audit
- Design pavements for low volume roads
UNIT- I : Planning and Alignment: Planning of Rural Roads, Concept of Network planning, rural roads planning, road alignment and surveys, governing factors on route selection, factors considered for alignment.
UNIT- II : Materials and Pavement Design: introduction, Soil ,material surveys, embankment and subgrade materials, stabilized Soils, Road aggregates, aggregate for base courses, new materials as stabilizers, materials for desert areas, materials for bituminous constructions and surfacing; materials for rigid pavements, special pavement, climatic suitability of concrete materials. Introduction, design procedure, pavement components, design of flexible and rigid pavements, special pavements design, types of drainage, and general criteria for road drainage, system of drainage, surface and subsurface systems.
UNIT- III : Construction and Specifications: introduction, selection of materials and Methodology, Embankment and subgrade, sub – base (granular), base(granular), shoulder, bituminous concrete, semi- rigid pavements, construction, concrete pavements, construction of special pavements, equipment required for different procedures.
UNIT- IV : Waste material for pavement construction: introduction, fly ash for road construction, design & construction, design &construction of fly ash embankment lime fly ash and stabilized soil, lime fly ash pavements, control of compaction, concrete stabilized fly ash with admixtures.
UNIT- V : Quality Control in Construction and Maintenance: Introduction, Pre-requirements, organizational setup, specification, and code of practice, Laboratory equipment, Earth and granular layers, bituminous courses, semi- rigid and rigid pavements, special requirements, recovered of quality control data. Distresses/Defects in rigid and flexible pavements, Maintenance and evaluation, inventory roads and inspections, types of Maintenance Activities, Maintenance
REFERENCES:
- IRC manual for rural roads. Special publication – 20(2002)
- HMSO, Soil Mechanics for rural Engineers in, London
- IRC related code books
- NRRDA – guidelines and code books
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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