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Design of flexible pavement

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Design is based on IRC 37-2018 and IITPave

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 Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work PERMANANT MEASURES FOR BLACK SPOT AT KM 66/2 OF NH

49 EXTN (NEW NH - 85)

Carriageway width Dual two lane (divided carriageway)

Classification of road SH

Design life 20

Initial traffic (A) (in both 6137

direction) (CVD)
Traffic growth rate 5

Year of traffic census 2017

Terrain Plain

Current year 2020

Construction period 1
CBR Values of subgrade used for Yes
calculcation of 90th Percentile 10,10.5,10,10.5,10,10.5
CBR Calcuation

90th Percentile CBR of sub grade 10.1

Whether subgrade to be No
replace with borrow material
CBR of select sub grade (borrow NA
material)
Whether stage construction Yes
involved
If yes, life of bituminous layers 5 Years

Grade of Bitumen for wearing VG40

course and binder course
Initial Traffic after completion of =(6137/2)x(1+5%)^(3+1)x0.5
construction
Single Side Traffic 3730 CVD

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 Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data
Whether Axle Load Survey No
conducted?
If yes, VDF value from Axle Load 0
Survey
Vehicle Damage Factor used for 5
design traffic
Lane Distribution Factor 0.75

Design Traffic =365 * ( (1+r)^n - 1) * A * D * F )/ r

For 20 Years =365x((1+0.05)^20-1)x3730x0.75x5/0.05/1000000

168.82 MSa

For 5 Years =365x((1+0.05)^5-1)x3730x0.75x5/0.05/1000000/0.60

47.02 MSa

% volume of air voids (Va) to be 3.5

adopted in DBM
% volume of bitumen (Vb) to be 11.5
adopted in DBM
Type of Binder Course Adopted DBM

Stage construction can be

adopted
Rate of DBM used for cost
analysis
Note:

Stage construction can be adopted

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 Percentile
80th and 90th percentile CBR values
Entered CBR Values
10,10.5,10,10.5,10,10.5

120

100

8090 0 10.1 0
90 10.1 10.1 90
Percentile ---->

6080 0 10.2 0
80 10.2 10.2 80 y = -100x + 1100
40

20

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

CBR ---->

Equation of the CBR graph is y = -100x + 1100

a b c d
-100 0 0 + 1100
90
80
CBR values for 90 80
10.10 10.20

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 Design of flexible pavement - strain check
PERMANANT MEASURES FOR BLACK SPOT AT KM 66/2 OF NH 49 EXTN (NEW NH - 85)

Design CBR = 10.1

Poisons ratio for cemented layers 0.25

Poisons ratio for all the other layers 0.35

Assumed Layer thickness for 1.Granular Base and Granular Subbase

BC = 40 140 Thickness of BC & DBM
DBM = 100

WMM = 250 450 Thickness of GSB + WMM

GSB = 200
590

MSA 47.02 Bitumen layer IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

168.82 Granular layer
5 Yrs with Factor = 47.02 5 Yrs = 28.21
15 Yrs = 110.17
20 Yrs = 168.82

Resilient modulus (M)

M Subgrade = 10*CBR For CBR <= 5 MR Eff = 2*(1-m2)pa/d

0.64
= 17.6*(CBR) For CBR > 5 m 0.35 Poisson's ration
MR Eff = 17.6x10.1^0.64 p 0.56 contact pressure
= 77.32
M Granular = 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45 a 150.8 Radius of circular
= 241.694892 contact area
M Granular = 242 d surface deflection
from IITPave

DBM MR of Bituminous layers

For BM Table 9.2 of IRC 37-2018 (For DBM)
2300 VG10 Temp 20oC
500 2000 VG10 Temp 25oC
M Bitumen = 3000 700 2000 VG30 Temp 35oC
3000 VG40 Temp 35oC

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 Allowable Strain Calculation
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the bituminous layers

Calculation of Tensile strain

Nf = 1.6064 x C x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 80 % reliability
Nf = 0.5161 x C x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 90 % reliability
Where C = 10^M, M=(4.84x (Vb /(Va+Vb)-0.69))
Va = 3.5 Vb = 11.5
1/εt = 5525.68943 #VALUE!
εt = 180.97E-06 (90%) Allowable Tensile strain
εt
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the cemented base

Not Applicable

N = RF x [ (113000/E0.804+191) / εt ]12 RF = 1 if >1500 CVD and 2 if <1500 CVD

N = N/A
1/εt = N/A
εt = N/A in microstrain
εt = 000.00E+00 Allowable Tensile strain

Vertical Compresive Strain at the bottom of the Granular sub base

Calculation of Vertical strain

N = 4.1656*10^-8*(1/εv)^4.5337 for 80 % reliability
N = 1.41*10^-8*(1/εv)^4.5337 for 90 % reliability
1/εv = (168820000/(1.41*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
1/εv = 3518.64928

εv = 284.20E-06 (90%) Allowable Vertical strain

Comparison of allowable strain with actual strain(from IITPAVE)

Values given below are micro strain

Allowable Actual
Tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers 181 micro Strain 180 micro Strain
0 micro Strain 0 micro Strain
Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade 284 micro Strain 284 micro Strain

The selected section is safe

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Terrain Construction period Census Year Current Year

Plain 0 2015 2015
Hilly 1 2016 2016
2 2017 2017
3 2018 2018
4 2019 2019
2020 2020

The selected section is safe under both cases

True both safe The selected section is safe under both cases
False hs safe
False vs safe
False both unsafe

TRUE htsb The bituminous layer is safe in tensile strain check

TRUE htsc The layer is safe in tensile strain check
TRUE vcss The section is safe under compressive strain check
TRUE The selected section is safe
The selected section is safe
The selected section is safe

The selected section is safe

Sl No

1
2
1.Granular Base and Granular Subbase 3
2.Cemented Base and Subbase with aggregate interlayer
3.Cemented Base and Subbase with SAMI
4.Foamed Bitumen / Emulsion treated RAP over Cemented Subbase
5.Cemented Base over Granular Subbase with aggregate interlayer
6.Cemented Subbase with WMM

Case-I MSA CBR Result

1 1 1
0 1 0
0 0 0
1
Case-II
MSA CBR Result
1 1 1

Case-III MSA CBR Result

1 1 1
0 1 0
0 1 0
1
 Carriageway Classification Stage Construction Layers
Single lane SH Yes 3
Intermediate lane MDR No
Two lane ODR
Undivided three lane Exp. Way
Undivided four lane
Dual two lane (divided carriageway)
Dual three lane (divided carriageway)
Dual four lane (divided carriageway)
Dual five lane (divided carriageway)

Lane Distribution factor 0.75

Single lane 1
Intermediate lane 0.75
Two lane 0.5
Undivided three lane 0.45
Undivided four lane 0.4
Dual two lane (divided carriageway) 0.75
Dual three lane (divided carriageway) 0.6
Dual four lane (divided carriageway) 0.45
Dual five lane (divided carriageway) 0.3
Vehicle Damage factor 5 5

Initial Traffic after Completion of construction

Indicative VDF Value
Traffic in CVPD
Rolling / Plain Hilly
0 - 150 1.7 0.6
150 - 1500 3.9 1.7
More than 1500 5.0 2.8

Initial Traffic after completion of construction 3730

Design traffic for 5 years 47.02 5 28.21
Design traffic for 15 years 110.17 15
Design traffic for 20 years 168.82 20
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Actual
 IITPAVE Result

No. of layers 3
E values (MPa) 3000.00 242.00 77.32
Mu values 0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm) 140.00 450.00
single wheel load (N) 20000.00
tyre pressure (MPa) 0.56
Dual Wheel
Z R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ epT epR
140.00 0.00-0.1209E+00 0.6914E+00 0.5516E+00-0.1627E-01 0.3576E+00-0.1853E-03 0.1802E-03 0.1173E-03
140.00L 0.00-0.1209E+00-0.4050E-02-0.1533E-01-0.1627E-01 0.3576E+00-0.4714E-03 0.1802E-03 0.1173E-03
140.00 155.00-0.1057E+00 0.5915E+00 0.2567E+00-0.5458E-01 0.3671E+00-0.1342E-03 0.1796E-03 0.2890E-04
140.00L 155.00-0.1057E+00-0.4609E-02-0.3161E-01-0.5458E-01 0.3671E+00-0.3844E-03 0.1796E-03 0.2890E-04
590.00 0.00-0.1970E-01 0.2814E-01 0.2465E-01-0.3118E-02 0.2519E+00-0.1577E-03 0.1091E-03 0.8964E-04
590.00L 0.00-0.1959E-01 0.1798E-02 0.6489E-03-0.3118E-02 0.2519E+00-0.2645E-03 0.1090E-03 0.8895E-04
590.00 155.00-0.2088E-01 0.2989E-01 0.2771E-01-0.4008E-02 0.2581E+00-0.1696E-03 0.1136E-03 0.1015E-03
590.00L 155.00-0.2088E-01 0.1900E-02 0.1204E-02-0.4009E-02 0.2581E+00-0.2840E-03 0.1136E-03 0.1015E-03

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 IRC 37-2012

Table for Chart 5.1

CBR below 500mm of compacted sub-grade

1.5 2 2.5 3 5 7
7 4 4.5 4.8 5.2 6.5 7
8 4.2 4.6 5 5.7 7.2 7.6
9 4.5 5 5.6 6.2 7.8 8.5
10 4.8 5.3 6.2 7 8.6 9.5
CBR of Borrow Material

11 4.9 5.7 6.5 7.2 9.1 9.7

12 5 6 6.7 7.5 9.6 10.5
13 5.2 6.3 7.1 8 10.2 11.1
14 5.6 6.6 7.5 7.4 10.7 11.7
15 5.8 7 8 8.8 11.3 12.3
16 6 7.25 8.2 9.2 11.8 13
17 6.2 7.5 8.5 9.6 12.3 13.5
18 6.5 7.75 8.7 9.9 12.8 14.1
19 6.6 8 9.2 10.2 13.4 14.7
20 6.8 8.25 9.5 10.5 13.8 15.2
30 8.5 10.5 12 13.9 18.2 20.2
40 10 12.2 14.1 16 22 24.5
50 11 13.7 16 18.2 25.2 28.3

CBR of sub-grade soil 10.1

CBR of Barrow Material-l1
CBR of Barrow Material-l2
Effective design CBR 10.1

MR of Subgrade 77.32
MR of Barrow Material-l1 #VALUE!
MR of Barrow Material-l2 #VALUE!
Top Bottom
Layers 1 0 0

Delta 2.942

MR Subgrade 50.38 50.376

MR Subgrade (Design) 50.38 287.28
Effective CBR 5.17