CE 445 Highway Engineering

The Highway and its Development: Highway in the Philippines

❖ Planning and difficulties
❖ Highway programming
❖ Community involvement
❖ Highway economy
❖ Location of the proposed highway
Highway plans and specifications
➢ Components of a Highway
❖ Road Alignment Geometry
❖ Design Speed
❖ Cross-section of typical highway
❖ Road shoulder
❖ Cut or fill slope
❖ Highway median
❖ The grade line
❖ Right of way
❖ Road alignment
❖ Widening of curves
❖ Islands
❖ Types of interchange
❖ Highway intersection
❖ Freeway entrance and exit
➢ Soil
❖ Soil and its origin
❖ Soil types
❖ Characteristics of soil
❖ Soil classification
➢ Road materials
❖ Aggregates
❖ Aggregates for bituminous pavement
❖ Aggregates for Portland cement concrete
❖ Mineral fillers
❖ Bituminous materials and binders
❖ Bituminous concrete pavement
❖ Asphalt concrete pavement
❖ Bituminous pavement failure
❖ Macadam asphalt
Surface treatment

➢ Roadbed Construction
❖ Treated and untreated base courses
❖ DPWH standard specifications on:
o Aggregate sub-base course
o Clearing and grubbing
o Excavation
o Free haul – overhaul
o Construction of fills and embankments
o Sub-grade preparation
o Compaction
o Stabilization
➢ Concrete Pavement
❖ Concrete pavement characteristics and behavior
❖ Transverse expansion, longitudinal, and construction joints
❖ Reinforcement of joints
❖ Subgrade and sub-base for concrete pavement
❖ Concrete proportions and mixtures
❖ Curing of concrete pavement
❖ DPWH specifications on concrete pavement
❖ Preparation of grade
❖ Handling, measuring, and batching of materials
❖ Placing of concrete
❖ Removal of forms
➢ Design pavement
❖ Rigid pavement
❖ Flexible pavement
❖ Thickness of pavement using McLeod’s method
❖ US corps of engineers
❖ California resistance value method
❖ Expansion pressure method
❖ Stress at the corner slab using Goldbeck’s formula
❖ Width of widening of a curve section of road
❖ Thickness of base course using tri-axial test method
➢ Drainage and slope protection
❖ Drainage hydrology
❖ Drainage economic considerations
❖ Draining the highway
❖ Manholes, inlets, and catch basins
❖ Channels and culverts
❖ Stabilization of the unsupported slopes
❖ Improving the stability of slope

➢ Highway maintenance and rehabilitation

Recycling equipment method

➢ Highway Design
➢ DPWH Highway Safety Design Manual
➢ AASHTO Specifications
➢ DPWH Bluebook