Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work Junction improvements at Km 58/4 of Thanjavur -

Mannargudi - Muthupet Road junction with Nagore -
Nagapattinam - Tuticorin - Ramanathapuram road

Carriageway width Two lane

Classification of road SH

Design life 15

Initial traffic (A) (in both direction) 2328

(CVD)
Traffic growth rate 5

Year of traffic census 2014

Terrain Plain

Current year 2016

Construction period 1

CBR Values of subgrade used for Yes

calculcation of 90th Percentile 5,5,5,4,5,5
CBR Calcuation

90th Percentile CBR of sub grade 4.6

Whether subgrade to be replace No
with borrow material
CBR of select sub grade (borrow
material)
Whether stage construction Yes
involved
If yes, life of bituminous layers 5 Years

Grade of Bitumen for wearing VG30

course and binder course

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 Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data
Initial Traffic after completion of =2328x(1+5%)^(2016-2014+1)x1
construction
2695 CVD

Whether Axle Load Survey No

conducted?
If yes, VDF value from Axle Load 0
Survey
Vehicle Damage Factor used for 4.5
design traffic
Lane Distribution Factor 0.5

Design Traffic =365 * ( (1+r)^n - 1) * A * D * F )/ r

For 15 Years =365x2695x((1+0.05)^15-1)x0.5x4.5/0.05/1000000

47.76 MSa

For 5 Years =365x2695x((1+0.05)^5-1)x0.5x4.5/0.05/1000000

12.23 MSa

% volume of air voids (Va) to be 4.5

adopted in DBM
% volume of bitumen (Vb) to be 11.5
adopted in DBM
Type of Binder Course Adopted DBM

Stage construction can be Rs. 5379.70

adopted
Rate of DBM used for cost Rs. 6545.02
analysis
Note:
On the basis of economic analysis BM can be adopted upto 60 mm
Stage construction can be adopted

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 80th and 90th percentile CBR values

Entered CBR Values

5,5,5,4,5,5

90 4.597839136
90 4.597839136 4.597839136 90
Percentile ---->

80 5.198079232
80 5.198079232 5.198079232 80
120

100

80 y = -16.66x + 166.6

60

40 CBR ---->

Equation of the CBR graph is 20

y = -16.66x + 166.6
a b c d
0
-16.66 0 0 + 166.6
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
90
80
CBR values for 90 80
4.60 5.00

TNHD_Pave_V 3.1 3 of 6 Released in - Jul.2015

 Design of flexible pavement - strain check
Junction improvements at Km 58/4 of Thanjavur - Mannargudi - Muthupet Road junction with Nagore -
Nagapattinam - Tuticorin - Ramanathapuram road

CBR = 4.6

Poisons ratio for cemented layers 0.25

Poisons ratio for all the other layers 0.35

Assumed Layer thickness for 1.Granular Base and Granular Subbase

BC = 40 115 Thickness of BC & DBM
DBM = 75

WMM = 250 630 Thickness of GSB + WMM

GSB = 380
745

MSA 12.23 Bitumen layer IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

47.76 Granular layer
5 Yrs = 12.23
10 Yrs = 27.84
15yrs = 47.76

Resilient modulus (M)

M Subgrade = 10*CBR For CBR <= 5

0.64
= 17.6*(CBR) For CBR > 5
M Subgrade = 46.00
M Granular = 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45
= 167.298125
M Granular = 167

DBM MR of Bituminous layers

For BM Table 7.1 of IRC 37-2012 (For DBM)
2300 VG10 Temp 20oC
o
500 2000 VG10 Temp 25 C
M Bitumen = 1700 700 1700 VG30 Temp 35oC
3000 VG40 Temp 35oC

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 Allowable Strain Calculation
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the bituminous layers

Calculation of Tensile strain

Nf = 2.21 x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 80 % reliability
Nf = 0.5161 x C x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 90 % reliability
Where C = 10^M, M=(4.84x (Vb /(Va+Vb)-0.69))
Va = 4.5 Vb = 11.5
1/εt = 2957.39544 #VALUE!
εt = 338.14E-06 Allowable Tensile strain
εt
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the cemented base

Not Applicable

N= RF x [ (113000/E0.804+191) / εt ]12 RF = 1 if >1500 CVD and 2 if <1500 CVD

N= N/A
1/εt = N/A
εt = N/A in microstrain
εt = 000.00E+00 Allowable Tensile strain

Vertical Compresive Strain at the bottom of the Granular sub base

Calculation of Vertical strain

N = 4.1656*10^-8*(1/εv)^4.5337 for 80 % reliability
N = 1.41*10^-8*(1/εv)^4.5337 for 90 % reliability
1/εv = (47760000/(1.41*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
1/εv = 2663.32455

εv = 375.47E-06 Allowable Vertical strain

Comparison of allowable strain with actual strain(from IITPAVE)

Values given below are micro strain

Allowable Actual
Tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers 338 micro Strain 339 micro Strain
0 micro Strain 0 micro Strain
Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade 375 micro Strain 350 micro Strain

The section is unsafe in tension at bottom of bituminous layer

The section is safe under compressive strain check

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 IITPAVE Result

No. of layers 3
E values (MPa) 1700.00 167.00 46.00
Mu values 0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm) 115.00 630.00
single wheel load (N) 20500.00
tyre pressure (MPa) 0.56
Dual Wheel
Z R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ epT epR
115.00 0.00-0.1729E 0.7133E 0.5634E0.1780E-01 0.5864E0.3646E-03 0.3392E-03 0.2202E-03
115.00L 0.00-0.1729E0.1389E-01-0.2861E-01-0.1780E-01 0.5864E0.9463E-03 0.3392E-03 0.2202E-03
115.00 155.00-0.1384E 0.5451E 0.1061E0.7751E-01 0.5966E0.2155E-03 0.3273E-03-0.2133E-04
115.00L 155.00-0.1384E0.1367E-01-0.5679E-01-0.7751E-01 0.5966E0.6812E-03 0.3273E-03-0.2133E-04
745.00 0.00-0.1433E-01 0.2603E-01 0.2319E-01-0.2123E-02 0.3580E0.1890E-03 0.1373E-03 0.1143E-03
745.00L 0.00-0.1433E-01 0.1472E-02 0.9012E-03-0.2124E-02 0.3580E0.3296E-03 0.1342E-03 0.1174E-03
745.00 155.00-0.1513E-01 0.2723E-01 0.2575E-01-0.2609E-02 0.3649E0.2017E-03 0.1408E-03 0.1288E-03
745.00L 155.00-0.1514E-01 0.1598E-02 0.1192E-02-0.2599E-02 0.3649E0.3503E-03 0.1409E-03 0.1289E-03

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