18CV825: Pavement Design CIVIL Syllabus for BE 8th Sem 2018 Scheme VTU (Professional Elective-4)

Pavement Design 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, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.

For all the other VTU CIVIL 8th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Civil Engineering 8th Sem 2018 Scheme.

For all the (Professional Elective-4) subjects refer to Professional Elective-4 Scheme. The detail syllabus for pavement design is as follows.

Course Objectives:

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Module 1

Introduction: Desirable characteristics of pavement, Types and components, Difference between Highway pavement and Air field pavement, Design strategies of variables, Functions of sub grade, sub base, Base course, surface course, comparison between Rigid and flexible pavement Fundamentals of Design of Pavements: Stresses and deflections, Principle, Assumptions and Limitations of Boussinesq’s theory, Burmister theory and problems on above.

Module 2

Design Factors: Design wheel load, contact pressure, Design life, Traffic factors, climatic factors, Road geometry, Subgrade strength and drainage, ESWL concept Determination of ESWL by equivalent deflection criteria, Stress criteria, EWL concept, and problems on above. Flexible pavement Design: Assumptions, Mcleod Method, Kansas method, CBR method, IRC Method (old), CSA method using IRC-37-2001, problems on above.

Module 3

Module 4

Stresses in Rigid Pavement : Types of stress, Analysis of Stresses, Westergaard’s Analysis, Modified Westergaard equations, Critical stresses, Wheel load stresses, Warping stress, Frictional stress, combined stresses (using chart / equations), problems on above. Design of Rigid Pavement: Design of CC pavement by IRC: 58-2002 for dual and Tandem axle load, Reinforcement in slabs, Design of Dowel bars, Design of Tie bars, Design factors for Runway pavements, Design methods for airfield pavements, problems of the above.

Module 5

Rigid Pavement Failures, Maintenance and Evaluation: Types of failures, causes, remedial/maintenance measures in rigid pavements, Functional evaluation by Visual inspection and unevenness measurements, wheel load and its repetition, properties of sub grade, properties of concrete. External conditions, joints, Reinforcement, Requirements of joints, Types of joints, Expansion joint, contraction joint, warping joint, construction joint, longitudinal joint, Design of joints.

Course Outcomes:

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, C E G Justo, and A Veeraragavan, Highway Engineering, Nem Chand & Brothers
L.R.Kadiyali and Dr.N.B.Lal, Principles and Practices of Highway Engineering, Khanna publishers
Yang H. Huang , Pavement Analysis and Design, University of Kentucky.

Reference Books:

For the detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE (CIVIL) 8th Sem, visit Civil Engineering 8th Sem Subjects.

For all (CBSE & Non-CBSC) BE/B.Tech results, visit VTU BE/B.Tech all semester results.

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