EVALUATE THE RUTTING AND FATIGUE POTENTIAL OF

ASPHALT CONCRETE USING GEO-TEXTILE MATERIAL

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
KARACHI, PAKISTAN
 EVALUATE THE RUTTING AND FATIGUE POTENTIAL OF
ASPHALT CONCRETE USING GEO-TEXTILE MATERIAL

BATCH 2013-2014

By

GROUP MEMBERS NAMES: ROLL NO:

MOHAMMAD IDREES CE-12320

MUHAMMAD UZAIR CE-13165
MUHAMMAD FARHAN KHAN CE-13169
MUHAMMAD HANZALA CE-13195
OSAMA ULLAH KHAN CE-13186
MUHAMMAD HASSAN SHAHBAZ CE-13140
YASIR JUNEJO CE-12330

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

KARACHI, PAKISTAN.
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the following students of batch 2013-2014 have successfully

Degree in Civil Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology,

Karachi, Pakistan.

GROUP MEMBERS NAMES: ROLL NO:

MOHAMMAD IDREES CE-12320
MUHAMMAD UZAIR CE-13165
MUHAMMAD FARHAN KHAN CE-13169
MUHAMMAD HANZALA CE-13195
OSAMA ULLAH KHAN CE-13186
MUHAMMAD HASSAN SHAHBAZ CE-13140
YASIR JUNEJO CE-12330

PROJECT SUPERVISOR

__________________________ __________________________
Prof. Dr. Adnan Qadir. Prof. Dr. Asad-ur-Rehman Khan
Department of Urban and Infrastructure Chairman Depart. of Civil Engineering
Engineering
NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi. NED UET, Karachi.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

CERTIFICATE .................................................................................................................... iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................... iv
LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................ vi
LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................. vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................. viii
DEDICATION ...................................................................................................................... ix
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1
1.1. General ..................................................................................................................... 1
1.2. Significance of study .................................................................................................... 1
1.3. Aims and Objectives ..................................................................................................... 3
1.4. Scope and limitation ..................................................................................................... 3
1.5. General Methodology ................................................................................................... 3
1.6. Summary ....................................................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................ 5
2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 5
2.2 Rutting failure: ............................................................................................................... 5
2.3 Types of Rutting ...................................................................................................... 6
2.3.1 Rutting by Densification ......................................................................................... 6
2.3.2 Rutting by Ravelling ............................................................................................... 6
2.3.3 Rutting by Shoving ................................................................................................. 7
2.3.4 Fatigue Failure ........................................................................................................ 7
2.3.5 Properties of Mixture That Effects Rutting Resistance .......................................... 9
2.4 Review of Rehabilitation Method of Pavement Structure ............................................. 9
2.5 Fiber reinforced asphalt concrete................................................................................. 10
2.6 Other methods of Rutting and fatigue prevention........................................................ 13
2.7 ASTM & ASCE Standards .......................................................................................... 13
CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................... 14
3.1. General........................................................................................................................ 14
CHAPTER 4: EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM ................................................................ 16
4.1. Materials ..................................................................................................................... 16
4.1.1. Aggregates ........................................................................................................... 16
4.1.2. Asphalt ................................................................................................................ 18
4.1.3. Optimum asphalt content ..................................................................................... 19
 4.1.4. Geosynthetics ....................................................................................................... 20
4.3. Determination of Mixing and Compaction Temperature............................................ 22
4.4. Roller Compactor........................................................................................................ 22
4.5. Wheel Tracking Device .............................................................................................. 23
4.6. Rutting susceptibility test ........................................................................................... 24
4.7. Pneumatic 4 Point Bending Apparatus ....................................................................... 24
4.8. Sample Preparation for Fatigue .................................................................................. 25
4.9. Testing for fatigue....................................................................................................... 26
CHAPTER 5: LAB INVESTIGATION............................................................................. 29
5.1 Rutting Test Results..................................................................................................... 29
5.2. Fatigue test results ...................................................................................................... 31
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION ...................................... 32
REFERENCES: ................................................................................................................... 33
 LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Major Type of crack and rut control treatment

Table 2: Properties of Aggregates

Table 3:

Table 4:

Table 5: Test on Asphalt

Table 6: Properties of Geo-composite

Table 7: Summary of test specimen prepared

Table 8: Mixing and compaction temperature

Table 9: Sample specification

Table 10: Summary of Rutting Test for Coarse gradation

Table 11: Summary of Rutting Test for Fine gradation

 LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Rutting in Superhighway M9 (Karachi to Hyderabad)

Figure 2: Rutting causing skidding and it will lead to the road accident

Figure 3: Methodology of project

Figure 4: Aggregate gradation chart

Figure 5: Asphalt at room temperature

Figure 6: Fiber Glass Geo-Grid Composite

Figure 7: Rutting sample left (modified sample) and right (control sample)

Figure 8: Sample Mixing on Hot Plate

Figure 9: Roller Compactor

Figure 10: Wheel tracking device

Figure 11: Left control sample after rutting Right modified sample after rutting

Figure 12: 4 Point Bending Apparatus

Figure 13: preparations of sample for fatigue testing

Figure 14: Beam fatigue test result

Figure 15: Comparison between control and Modified sample

Figure 16: Comparison between control and Modified sample

Figure 17: Flexural stiffness of fine gradation Figure 18: Flexural stiffness of coarse

gradation
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First praise is to Allah, the Almighty, on whom ultimately, we depend for sustenance and
guidance. Acknowledgment is due to NED University of Engineering & Technology,
Karachi for the support it has provided us for the completion of the project. We would
like to thank everyone who had contributed to the successful completion of this project.
We would like to express our gratitude to our project supervisor,
Prof. Dr. Adnan Qadir for his advice, guidance and his enormous patience throughout the
development of the work. We would like to Karam-un-Nisa Chaudary for her constant
attention and her valuable time. In addition, we would also like to express our gratitude to
our loving parents and friends who helped and given us the encouragement.
 DEDICATION

The project is especially dedicated to our parents, our supervisor and all the helping
hands for assisting us during the completion of the entire project.
 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. General

The provision of adequate thickness of asphaltic course is vital for ensuring the
pavement bears the expected load, fights the distresses and completes its design
service life. The conventional method of preventing the distresses in asphalt
concrete has been by varying the thickness of asphalt course provided in the
pavement (Moghaddam et al., 2011). This method increases the construction
cost, thus, making it unwanted. New methods of distress-prevention need to be
investigated for making long service life pavements. Reinforcement of asphalt
concrete with materials like fibres and polymers has been found to be a reliable
option. The use of traditional techniques in asphalt pavement, such as full depth
patch, thin layer patch, crack seal/fill, and subgrades for pavements, often face
problems because of high cost and/or environmental issues. Such problems are
primarily because of the need for borrowing great volume of good quality
material (which might be very costly). No current pavement rehabilitation
techniques have need shown to prevent rutting and fatigue distresses however,
several techniques have demonstrated the ability to overcome these distresses
Application of geosynthetics (geo-composites) is one of them. In this study
tests were carried out on prepared samples in the laboratory for assessment of
the effectiveness of Geosynthetics (Geo-composite) as reinforcing material.

1.2. Significance of study

Pakistan road network carries 91% passenger traffic and almost 96% of the
freight traffic (Javed 2005, Nion, 2006). Highways in Pakistan are generally in
poor condition. The distresses like rutting and fatigue have degraded the
condition of the available road network making them unsafe and dangerous for
the road users. Pavement condition survey in 2010 suggested that 41% of the
National Highway (NHA) lost its structural integrity and load carrying
capacity. The survey data also showed that 58% of the NHA network suffers

27% of the NHA network poses a serious safety hazard where wheel path ruts