IRC: 76.1979 TENTATIVE GUIDELINES FOR STRUCTURAL STRENGTH EVALUATION OF RIGID AIRFIELD PAVEMENTS 2 THE INDIAN ROADS CONGRESSMEMBERS OF THE SPECIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE, us «i - RP. Sikka Gidember Secretary) 1. Qazi Mohd. Afeal RC. Arora RT. Aue MK. Chatterjee E.C. Chandrasekharan M.G. Dandavate 3.Datt Dr. MP. Dhic Dr. RK. Ghosh BAR. Govind LC, Gupta i S.A. Hoda . MB. Jayawant DR. Kohli |. S.B, Kulkarsi PK. Lauria 1 WLC, Malhotra M.R. Malya . 0. Muthachen K. Sunder Naik KCK, Nambiar 1. TK. Natarajan . M.D. Patel 5. Satish Prasad |. S.K. Sameddar . Dr. O.S. Sabgal 1 N. Sen SNN. Sinha D. Ajith Simba Maj. Genl. 1S. Soin . Dr. Bh. Subbaraju 5. Prof. C{G. Swaminathan Director, Central Road Research Institute Miss PK. Thressia 1 The Director (Prof. GM. Andavan) Director’ General (Road Development) & Addi, Secretary to the Government of fadia, Ministry of Shipping and Transport Chief Engineer (Roads), Ministry of Shipping and Transport Development Commissioner, Jammu & Kashmir N.D.S.E. Part I, New Delhi Chief Engineer & Joint Secretary, Maharashtra, PW & H Department Chief Executive Officer, West Bengal Industrial Infra- Structure Development Corporation Chief Engineer, Pamban Bridge Project, Madras Engineer, Concrete Association of India Chief Engineer (Retd.), Greater Kailash, New Delhi-48 Deputy Director, Head, Roads Division, Central Road ‘Rescarch Institute Deputy Director, Head, Rigid & Semi Rigid Pavements Division, Centeai Road Research Institute Director of Designs, Engineer-in-Chief Branch, AHQ Engineer-in-Chief, Haryana P.W.D., B & R Project Manager-cum-Managing Director, Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation Ltd. Synthetic Asphalt, 13, Kantwadi Road, Bombay-400050 Manager, Electronics ‘Data Processing, Bharat Petro- eum Corporation Ltd. ‘Manager (Asphalt), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, ‘Adal. Chief Engineer, P.W.D. (B. R.), Rajasthan Engincer-in-Chief and Secretary to the Government of Himachal Pradesh, PWD. Development Manager, Gammon India Ltd., Bombay Poomkavil House, P.O. Punalus, Kerala Administrator, U-K. Project, Gulbarga-585102 “Ramanalaya’ 11, First Crescent Park Road, Gandhi nagar, Adyar, Madras.600020 Deputy Director, Head, Soil Mechanics Division, Central Road Research Institute Secretary to the Govt. of Gujarat, Buildings & Com- ‘munication Deptt. ‘Manager, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Chief Project Administrator, Hooghly Commissioners, Calcuttas700021 Principal, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh ‘Chief Engineer (Retd), 12-A, Chltranjan Park, New 49-B, Sri Krishna Puri, Patna Director (Civil Enginecring) Indian Standards Institution Director General, Border Roads Chief Executive, National Trafic Planning & Automa- tion Centre, Trivandrum ‘Sei Ramapuram, Bhimavaram—$34202 (A.P.) ‘Chief Engineer (Construction), Trivandrum, Kerala Highways Research Station, Madras IRC : 761979 TENTATIVE GUIDELINES FOR STRUCTURAL STRENGTH EVALUATION OF RIGID AIRFIELD PAVEMENTS Published by THE INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS ‘Jamnagar House, Shabjahan Roa ‘New Delhi—110011 Pr © Rs. MAO32 (Plus packiog and postage)IRC: 16-1979 First Published: April 1980 (Rights of Publication and Translation are reserved) Printed at PRINTAID, New Delhi IRC: 76.1919 TENTATIVE GUIDELINES FOR STRUCTURAL STRENGTH EVALUATION OF RIGID AIRFIELD PAVEMENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1, Pavement evaluation, in its most commen connotation, implies the assessment of residual or available structural strength of the pavement. Evaluation is normally required either in connection, with checking the adequacy of the existing pavements for increased design loads, or working out suitable overlay designs to restore cr enhance their structural capacity. Evaluation is also needed to check the quality of a new construction. 1.2. As regards structural evaluation of rigid pavements while both direct load test and indirect reverse design methods are in use in the country, no guidelines about the criteria and methods of evaluation have so far been Iaid down. It is with a view to provid ing a standard basis for evaluation of the rigid airfield pavements, both in respect of test procedures and_the evaluation criteria, thet these guidelines have been prepared. Suggestions are also included for simplifying the test procedures where itis felt that this could be done without sacrifice of accuracy. These guidelines were approved by the Cement Concrete Road ‘Surfacing Committee (personnel given below) in. their meeting held at Hyderabad on the Sth January, 1976, KK. Nambiar Convenor Dr. RK. Ghosh -Member-Secretary (MEMBERS: D.C. Chaturvedi K.C. Mital Dr. M.P. Dhir CY. Padmanabhan, M.G. Dandavate NL. Patel Pil. Jagus K. Krishna Mohan Rao M.D. Kale PS, Sandhawalia, Brig. RK. Kalra Brig. Gobinder Singh D.N. Khurana S.BP. Sinha Dr. 8K. Khanna N, Sivagura Y-K. Mehta Dr. H.C. Visvesvaraya Director General (Road Development) & Adal. Secretary to the Govt. of India Ex-Officio