CE 742 Pavement Systems Engineering: Spring 2014, IIT Bombay

Homework 8
Due Date: 10.04.2014
Name : ________________________________

Roll No._________________________

NOTE: Make sure to include the printout from IITRIGID wherever required and highlight critical locations.
1. Design following two different types of cement concrete pavements for four-lane divided national highway with
two lanes in each direction in the state of Maharashtra as per IRC 58-2011. The target is successful design of a
pavement without any types of fatigue distresses (TDC or BUC). The design should be optimized therefore all the
possible combinations should be tried. You should redesign a pavement until unless you are successful. Show
final cumulative damage values for TDC and BUC in tabular format (See Example Table VII.4 in IRC 58-2011) for
each type of pavements. Also, show the number of trials you work on. Draw neat and clean drawing of each
pavement section with proper labelling. Comment on your results. No change in given data.
1.1 Concrete Pavement with tied concrete shoulder with doweled transverse joints
1.2 Concrete pavement without tied concrete shoulder and without doweled transverse joints
2. Design Dowel bar and two types of tie bars (plain and deformed) for the concrete pavement design in Problem
1.

Table 1 Design Input Data

Design Data (Assume other design data as per IRC 58:2011 and highlight them in your sheet)

ADT: 20,000 as per last count before start of the construction (both direction)

Truck (%): 30 as per last count before start of the construction

Construction Period: 5 Years

Truck Growth Rate: 7.5%

Design Life: 30 Years

Directional distribution Factor: 0.5

CBR of Compacted Borrow Material 500 mm Thick: 20%

CBR of natural subgrade: 3%

Lane width: 3.5 m

Transverse joint spacing = 4.5 m

Percentage of CV with wheel base spacing less than 4.5 m = 60

Percentage truck during night hours ( 6 P.M. tp 6 A.M.) = 65

Minimum 7 Day compressive strength of DLC = 10 MPa

28 Days compressive strength of concrete = 60 MPa

Modulus of elasticity of PQC concrete = 35,000 MPa

Poissons ratio of PQC concrete = 0.15

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Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Concrete = 10 x 10 per C

3

Unit weight of concrete = 25 kN/m

Design flexural strength = based on 90 days

Beta factor transverse joints with dowel bar for carrying TDC analysis = 0.66

Beta factor transverse joints without dowel bar for carrying TDC analysis = 0.90

Joint width = 20 mm (expansion joint) and 8 mm (contraction joint)

E for dowel bar = 20,000 MPa

Modulus of dowel support K = 415000 MPa/m

Load Transfer = 30% for tied concrete shoulder

Axle Load Spectra: Given below

Coefficient of friction = 1.5

Allowable tensile stress in plain tie bars = 125 MPa

Allowable tensile stress in deformed tie bars = 200 MPa

Allowable bond stress in plain tie bars = 1.75 MPa

Allowable bond stress in deformed tie bars = 2.46

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CE 742 Pavement Systems Engineering: Spring 2014, IIT Bombay

Steering Axle
Load Range,
kN
145-155
135-145
125-135
115-125
105-115
95-105
85-95
75-85
65-75
55-65
45-55
<45

No.
Axles
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
4
12
3
500

Table 2 Data from Axle Load Survey

Single Axle
Tandem Axle
Load Range,
No.
Load Range,
No.
kN
Axles
kN
Axles
185-195
5
390-410
2
175-185
3
370-390
1
165-175
2
350-370
2
155-165
3
330-350
3
145-155
3
310-330
2
135-145
2
290-310
3
125-145
2
270-290
2
115-125
10
250-270
5
105-115
50
230-250
7
95-105
50
210-230
9
85-95
75
190-210
10
<85
200
170-190
35
<170
50

Tridem
Load Range,
kN
585-615
555-585
525-555
495-525
465-495
435-465
405-435
375-405
345-375
315-345
285-315
255-285
<285

No.
Axles
0
0
0
1
1
2
2
1
3
5
10
15
50

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