Maintenance
Maintenance
Maintenance
5 5
% of surface area for filling potholes
3.5
2.5
1.5
0.5
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Year from Surfacing
Economics of Maintenance!!!
• Economy
• Environment
• Safety
• Accessibility
• Integration
Road project Cycle
• Planning
• Road design principles
• Construction methods
• Operations
• Maintenance
• Rehabilitation
• Planning
What are the factors deterioration?
• Traffic
• Water
• Environment
What are the causes of defects in the
pavement?
• Defects in the quality of materials used
7. Patch/ deterioration
8. Potholes
9. Rutting
10. Shoving
11. Bleeding
12. Polished aggregates
12. Raveling
Shoulder drop-off
15. Water bleeding and pumping
Defects in Cement Concrete Pavements
• Corner break
• D-Cracking
• Longitudinal cracking
• Transverse cracking
Corner Cracking
D-Cracking
Longitudinal cracking
Transverse Cracking
Joint seal damage
• Routine maintenance
• Recurrent maintenance
• Specific maintenance
• Periodic maintenance
• Emergency maintenance
Routine maintenance
Routine Maintenance activities
• For paved and unpaved roads:
• Clearing
• Small Landslides & other materials from carriageway
• Side drains
• Culverts
• Under Bridges
• Vegetation
• Gravel/earthen roads
• Repairing of gullies in the road surface
• Shoulder improvement
• Shoulder improvement
• Shape is important
• First, the shoulder should meet the edge of the roadway at the same
elevation (shoulder should begin at the same lebvel of the
carriageway edge)
• What will happen if: shoulder level differs from the carriageway
levels?
Dos and Don’ts for maintenance of pavement
• Carriageway!!!
• Traffic control:
• Axle load
• Speed
• Camber
• Superelevation
• Shoulder
• Level with respect to carriageway
• Cross-Slope
• Cross-slope
• Side drains
• Cross drains
• Causeway
A smooth way to prosperity:
properly maintained pavement