Design of Flexible Pavement (288.600-297.

000)

Design Period 15 Years

Design Traffic for Bituminous layers (MSA) 70
Design Traffic for Base and Sub-base layers(MSA) 70
Effective CBR of Subgrade 9
Grade of Bitumen VG40
Bitumen Content (%) 4.500
Volume of air voids (%) 3.50

Pavement Crust (mm)

Granualar Subbase (GSB) 200
Wet Mix Macadam (WMM) 250
Dense Bituminous Macadam (DBM) 100
Bituminous Concete (BC) 50

Resilient Modulus in Mpa of

Subgrade 71.82
Base course (WMM+GSB) 224.49
Bituminous Layers (DBM)-- VG 40 4000.00
Bituminous Layers (BC) -- VG 40 4000.00

Poissons Ratio (μ) of

Subgrade 0.35
Base course (WMM+GSB) 0.35
DBM 0.35
BC 0.35

Allowable Strains
Volume of air voids (Va) 3.50
Volume of Bitumen (Vb) 11.50
"C" Value 2.35

Horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of DBM layer (εt) 153.37E-06

Vertical strain at top of subgrade (ε v) 345.11E-06

Computed strains from IITPAVE software

Horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of DBM layer (εt) 151.10E-06

Vertical strain at top of subgrade (ε v) 268.10E-06
 Design of Flexible Pavement

Design Period 15 Years

Design Traffic for Bituminous layers (MSA) 70
Design Traffic for Base and Sub-base layers(MSA) 70
Effective CBR of Subgrade 9
Grade of Bitumen VG40
Bitumen Content (%) 4.920
Volume of air voids (%) 3.50

Pavement Crust (mm)

Granualar Subbase (GSB) 200
Wet Mix Macadam (WMM) 250
Dense Bituminous Macadam (DBM) 90
Bituminous Concete (BC) 50

Resilient Modulus in Mpa of

Subgrade 71.82
Base course (WMM+GSB) 224.49
Bituminous Layers (DBM)-- VG 40 4000.00
Bituminous Layers (BC) -- VG 40 4000.00

Poissons Ratio (μ) of

Subgrade 0.35
Base course (WMM+GSB) 0.35
DBM 0.35
BC 0.35

Allowable Strains
Volume of air voids (Va) 3.50
Volume of Bitumen (Vb) 12.57
"C" Value 2.80

Horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of DBM layer (εt) 160.37E-06

Vertical strain at top of subgrade (εv) 345.11E-06

Computed strains from IITPAVE software

Horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of DBM layer (εt) 161.10E-06

Vertical strain at top of subgrade (εv) 283.60E-06