10/7/2019

TRANSPORTATION
ENGINEERING II

Pavement design standards

IMPORTANCE

• In our daily life, we follow some

standards
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acceptable. This leads to
simplification of various unforeseen
problems that might be faced in
relevance.

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• We are usually unaware of the role

played
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b standards
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of quality, Safety, Reliability and
Efficiency- As well as in providing
such benefits at an economical cost.

• Standards make an enormous

contribution to most aspects of our
lives - although very often, that
contribution is invisible. For example,
as purchasers or users of products,
we soon notice when they turn out to
be of poor quality,
quality do not fit,fit are
incompatible with equipment we
already have, are unreliable or
dangerous.

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STANDARDS FOLLOWED

• Different standards are being

followed in the world by different
countries, suiting their environmental
conditions and other resources.
• Following are the different standards.
– British Standards
• T
Transport and
d Road
R d Research
R h Laboratory
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(TRRL) Road Note 31.
– USA Standards
• AASHTO (American Association of State
Highway & Transportation Officials).

BRITISH STANDARD

• Factors involved in formulating

design suitable for a particular
situation are
– Present Commercial Traffic
– Growth rate of commercial traffic
– Design life required
– ESAL’s
ESAL’
– Thicknesses of different pavement
layers

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USA STANDARDS

• AASHTO Guide for design is the

standard followed in USA.
USA
• The major difference in the USA and
British standard is the concept of
failure criterion. In British standards,
the failure conditions are deformation
and cracking where as in USA,USA failure
is defined in terms of quality of ride,
known as Present Serviceability
Index (PSI).

Pavement Design

• Basic Concepts
– Different ways of characterizing axles
• Consult Class Notes (w.r.t no. of axles, axle
location and use)

– Chassis types
• Consult Class Notes (rigid and articulated)

– Wheel Base
• Consult Class Notes

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Pavement Design

• Pavement design for a certain load

and
d no. off passes off that
h load
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(ESAL’s)
• Calculation of ESAL’s
• Determination of L.E.F (load
equivalency factor) or E E.F
F or
damaging effect.

Consult Class Notes

Pavement Design

• Structural Number (SN) calculation

and
d use ffor layer
l thickness
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determinations

Consult Class Notes

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Assignment No. 1

• Consult the assignment given in the

class
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