Highway Engineering Civil 6th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Highway Engineering detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CV63), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other civil 6th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Civil 6th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for highway engineering is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to;

1. Gain knowledge of different modes of transportation systems, history, development of highways and the organizations associated with research and development of the same in INDIA.
2. Understand Highway planning and development considering the essential criteria’s (engineering and financial aspects, regulations and policies, socio economic impact).
3. Get insight to different aspects of geometric elements and train them to design geometric elements of a highway network.
4. Understand pavement and its components, pavement construction activities and its requirements.
5. Gain the skills of evaluating the highway economics by B/C, NPV, IRR methods and also introduce the students to highway financing concepts.

Module 1

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Module 2

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 Highway Geometric Design: Cross sectional elements-width, surface, camber, Sight distances-SSD, OSD, ISD, HSD, Design of horizontal and vertical alignment-curves, super-elevation, widening, gradients, summit and valley curves

Module 3

Pavement Materials: Subgrade soil – desirable properties-HRB soil classificationdetermination of CBR and modulus of subgrade reaction with Problems Aggregates-Desirable properties and tests, Bituminous materials-Explanation on Tar, bitumen, cutback and emulsion-tests on bituminous material Pavement Design: Pavement types, component parts of flexible and rigid pavements and their functions, ESWL and its determination (Graphical method only)-Examples

Module 4

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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:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

1. Acquire the capability of proposing a new alignment or re-alignment of existing roads, conduct necessary field investigation for generation of required data.
2. Evaluate the engineering properties of the materials and suggest the suitability of the same for pavement construction.
3. Design road geometrics, structural components of pavement and drainage.
4. Evaluate the highway economics by few select methods and also will have a basic

knowledge of various highway financing concepts.
Program

Course Objectives:

• Engineering knowledge
• Problem analysis
• Interpretation of data

Text Books:

1. S K Khanna and C E G Justo,Highway Engineering, Nem Chand Bros, Roorkee
2. L R Kadiyali, Highway Engineering, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
3. R Srinivasa Kumar, Highway Engineering, University Press.
4. K.P.subramanium, Transportation Engineering, SciTech Publications, Chennai.

Reference Books:

1. Relevant IRC Codes
2. Specifications for Roads and Bridges-MoRT&H, IRC, New Delhi.
3. C. JotinKhisty, B. Kentlal, Transportation Engineering, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Civil, 2017 scheme do visit Civil 6th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.

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