MOTIHARI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

MODULE-5

Topic-Introduction of Pavement Design

Presented by
Anil Kumar Chhotu
Assistant professor
Department of Civil Engineering
 Traffic Loads
Different Types of vehicles
•Cycles
•Two-wheelers
•Passenger Cars
•Vans
•Buses
•Single Unit Trucks
•Multi-unit Trucks
 In evaluating the traffic condition of a facility
and for assessing the geometric design
requirements, it is necessary to consider all types
of vehicles using (or expected to use) the facility.
 But for pavement design, only the vehicles that
carry significantly heavy loads are important–
commercial vehicles
 Indian Roads Congress defines Commercial
vehicles as the vehicles having a laden weight
more than 3 Tons
Permissible Weights (tonnes) as per IRCVehicle

Load Transfer through Wheels

Pneumatic Tyres –Inflated with air

Three parameters need to be considered
•Total wheel load
•Shape of Contact area
•Distribution of pressure over the contact area
Load Transfer through Wheels
Load Transfer through wheels
 The Pressure distribution (vertical,
centripetal or unidirectional) is
normally not uniform
 Normally only uniformly distributed
vertical surface stress equal to tyre
pressure is considered for analysis
Shape of Contact Area
Different shapes are considered for analysis
•Circular
•Rectangular
•Rectangular with semi-circular ends
•More exact shapes for rigorous analysis
Circular Contact Area