SELF HEALING PAVEMENT

GROUP’S TEAM:
A.L CHIDAMBARAM
ARMISHAL K
MENTOR: MR. PITCHI RAJAN(ASST. PROFF.)
 INTRODUCTION
 A road surface or pavement is the durable surface material laid down on an
area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway.
 Pavement (architecture), an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering.
 Pavement (material) or road surface, is the durable surfacing of roads and
walkways. Sidewalk or pavement, a walkway along the side of a road.
 REQUIREMENTS OF AND IDEALS
PAVEMENT
 Sufficient thickness to distribute the wheel load stresses to a safe value on the
sub-grade soil,
 Structurally strong to withstand all types of stresses imposed upon it,
 Adequate coefficient of friction to prevent skidding of vehicles,
 Smooth surface to provide comfort to road users even at high speed,
 Produce least noise from moving vehicles,
 Dust proof surface so that traffic safety is not impaired by reducing visibility,
 Impervious surface, so that sub-grade soil is well protected, and
 Long design life with low maintenance cost.
 TYPES OF PAVEMENT
The pavements can be classified based on the structural performance into two and
these are discuss in briefly in below:
 Flexible pavement: under flexible pavement different types of roads are classified
as:
• Conventional layered flexible pavement,
• Full - depth asphalt pavement, and
• Contained rock asphalt mat (CRAM).
 Rigid pavement: the types of roads under rigids are:
• Jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP),
• Jointed reinforced concrete pavement (JRCP),
• Continuous reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), and
• Pre-stressed concrete pavement (PCP).
 FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT
 Flexible pavements will transmit wheel load stresses to the lower layers by grain-
to-grain transfer through the points of contact in the granular structure.
 Our normal road is of flexible pavement
 Uses in road construction for light, medium and heavy road traffic.
 Made of bituminous binder.
 ADVANTAGES
 Adaptability to stage construction
 Availability of low-cost types that can be easily built
 Ability to be easily opened and patched
 Easy to repair frost heave and settlement
 Resistance to the formation of ice glaze
 RIGID PAVEMENT
 Rigid pavements have sufficient flexural strength to transmit the wheel load
stresses to a wider area below. A typical cross section of the rigid pavement.
 Rigid pavements are constructed by Portland cement concrete (PCC).
 In rigid pavement, load is distributed by the slab action, and the pavement
behaves like an elastic plate resting on a viscous medium.
 Used in Road construction, Airport runway construction and other.
 ADVANTAGES
 Low maintenance costs.
 Long life with extreme durability.
 High value as a base for future resurfacing with asphalt.
 Load distribution over a wide area, decreasing base and sub grade
requirements.
 Ability to be placed directly on poor soils.
 No damage from oils and greases.
 BUT WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACK WE
FACE ?
 Noise pollution
 BUT WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACK WE
FACE ?
 Stagnant of water on surface due to impermeable surface.
 BUT WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACK WE
FACE ?
 Lead to formation of Pot holes.
 BUT WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACK WE
FACE ?
 Socio problem.
SOLUTION FOR IMPERVIOUS ASPHALT
 Permeable pavement.
• Permeable pavement (also known as pervious or porous concrete) is a
specific type of pavement with a high porosity that allows rainwater to pass
through it into the ground below. ... Pervious concrete has many applications,
most commonly: low-volume pavements.
 PROBLEM OF PERMEABLE PAVEMENT
 Ravelling, Cacking, Rutting and other distress of pavement.
 SELF HEALING PAVEMENT
 Self-healing asphalt is created by adding steel wool fibers to bitumen when
asphalt is created. This allows the glue like material to rebind the asphalt.
 Self-healing technology is a new field within material technology.
 It was discovered by Erik Schlangen scientists out of delft university of
technology in the Netherlands.
WHY CRACK HAPPEN
 MODE OF WORKING
 Self-healing asphalt is created by adding steel wool fibers to bitumen when
asphalt is created. This allows the glue-like material to rebind the asphalt
when it is undergoing reconstruct.
 MODE OF REPAIRS FOR CRACKS
 Induction Heating:
An electrically conductive asphalt pavement using graphite as a conductive
medium for the purpose of heating the bitumous mixer which is fails by cracking
and
 Self-Assembled Monolayers.
 Microcapsulation Technique.
 CONCLUSION
Today, roads designs are sophisticated engineering creations. Despite this,
the materials used in asphalt mixes have remained largely unchanged for the
past100 years. The main ingredient of a modern road is the bitumen.
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