Highway Engineering detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU CIVIL 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU CIVIL 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for highway engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Principles of Transportation Engineering: Importance of transportation, Different modes of transportation and comparison, Characteristics of road transport Jayakar committee recommendations, and implementation-Central Road Fund, Indian Roads Congress, Central Road Research Institute. Highway Development and Planning: Road types and classification, road patterns, planning surveys, master plan-saturation system of road planning, phasing road development in India, problems on best alignment among alternate proposals Salient Features of 3rd and 4thtwenty year road development plans and Policies, Present scenario of road development in India (NHDP & PMGSY) and in Karnataka (KSHIP & KRDCL) Road development plan-vision 2021. Highway Alignment and Surveys: Ideal Alignment, Factors affecting the alignment, Engineering surveys-Map study, Reconnaissance, Preliminary and Final location & detailed survey, Reports and drawings for new and re-aligned projects.
Module 2
Highway Geometric Design of horizontal alignment elements: Cross sectional elements-width, surface, camber, Sight distances-SSD, OSD, ISD, HSD, Radius of curve, Transition curve, Design of horizontal and vertical alignment-curves, super-elevation, widening, gradients, summit and valley curves.
Module 3
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Module 4
Pavement Construction: Design of soil aggregate mixes by Rothfuch’s method. Uses and properties of bituminous mixes and cement concrete in pavement construction. Earthwork; cutting and Filling, Preparation of subgrade, Specification and construction of
- Granular Sub base,
- WBM Base
- WMM base,
- Bituminous Macadam
- Dense Bituminous Macadam
- Bituminous Concrete,
- Dry Lean Concrete sub base and PQC
- concrete roads.
Module 5
Highway Drainage: Significance and requirements, Surface drainage system and design-Examples, sub surface drainage system, design of filter materials, Types of cross drainage structures, their choice and location.
Highway Economics: Highway user benefits, VOC using charts only-Examples, Economic analysis-annual cost method-Benefit Cost Ratio method-NPV-IRR methods- Examples, Highway financing-BOT-BOOT concepts.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- S K Khanna and C E G Justo, Highway Engineering, Nem Chand Bros, Roorkee.
- L R Kadiyali, Highway Engineering, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
- R Srinivasa Kumar, Highway Engineering, University Press.
- K. P.Subramanium, Transportation Engineering, SciTech Publications, Chennai.
Reference Books:
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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 5th Sem Civil Engineering, visit (CIVIL) 5th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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