Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work

Construction of Main Road Radha Sawami Satsang

Bhawan to college road at Giani Gail Singh Nagar, Client
: Improvement Trust, Roopnagar

Carriageway width

Two lane

Classification of road

MDR

Design life

15

Initial traffic (A) (in both

direction) (CVD)

250

Traffic growth rate

Year of traffic census

2015

Terrain

Plain

Current year

2015

Construction period

CBR Values of subgrade used for

calculcation of 80th Percentile
CBR Calcuation

Yes
7.29,7.78,4.38,4.5

80th Percentile CBR

Whether subgrade to be
replace with borrow material

4.47
No

CBR of select sub grade (borrow

material)
Whether stage construction
involved

No

If yes, life of bituminous layers

Grade of Bitumen for wearing
course and binder course

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Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Initial Traffic after completion of
construction

=250x(1+5%)^(2015-2015+1)x1
263 CVD

Whether Axle Load Survey

conducted?

No

If yes, VDF value from Axle Load

Survey

Vehicle Damage Factor used for

design traffic

3.5

Lane Distribution Factor

0.5

Design Traffic
For 15 Years

=365 * ( (1+r)^n - 1) * A * D * F )/ r
=365x263x((1+0.05)^15-1)x0.5x3.5/0.05/1000000
3.63 MSa

For 5 Years

=365x263x((1+0.05)^5-1)x0.5x3.5/0.05/1000000
0.93 MSa

% volume of air voids (Va) to be

adopted in DBM

4.5

% volume of bitumen (Vb) to be

adopted in DBM

11.5

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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80th and 90th percentile CBR values

120

Entered CBR Values

100

7.29,7.78,4.38,4.5
80
60
40
y = -23.922x3 + 455.34x2 - 2836.9x + 5800.2

Percentile ---->

20
0
0
-20

90
90
1
80
80

4.42525979
2

4.473886067

4.42525979
4.42525979
4
5
4.473886067
4.473886067

90
6

80

CBR ---->
Equation of the CBR graph is

CBR values for

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y = -23.922x3 + 455.34x2 - 2836.9x + 5800.2

90
4.43

a
b
-23.922
+455.34
90.00000435
79.99998537
80
4.47

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c
-2836.9

d
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Design of flexible pavement - strain check

Construction of Main Road Radha Sawami Satsang Bhawan to college road at Giani Gail Singh Nagar,
Client : Improvement Trust, Roopnagar
CBR

4.47

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
DBM

=
=

40
60

100

Thickness of BC & DBM

WMM
GSB

=
=

225
250

475

Thickness of GSB + WMM

575
MSA
5 Yrs
10 Yrs
15yrs

=
=
=

3.63 Bitumen layer

3.63 Granular layer
0.93
2.11
3.63

IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

Resilient modulus (M)

M Subgrade

= 10*CBR
= 17.6*(CBR) 0.64
M Subgrade =
44.70
M Granular
M Granular

For CBR <= 5

For CBR > 5

= 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45

=
143.169215
=
143

MR of Bituminous layers
Table 7.1 of IRC 37-2012 (For DBM)
2300
VG10
Temp 20oC
2000
VG10
Temp 25oC
1700
VG30
Temp 35oC
3000
VG40
Temp 35oC

DBM
For BM

M Bitumen

1700

500
700

Allowable Strain Calculation

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Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the bituminous layers

Calculation of Tensile strain
Nf = 2.21 x 10^ - 4 x {1/t}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854
Nf = 0.5161 x C x 10^ - 4 x {1/t}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854
M=(4.84x (Vb /(Va+Vb)-0.69))
Where C = 10^M,
Va =
Vb =
4.5
11.5
1/t =
2164.21393
#VALUE!
t =
462.06E-06
Allowable Tensile strain
t
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the cemented base

for 80 % reliability
for 90 % reliability

Not Applicable
N
N
1/t
t
t

=
=
=
=
=

RF x [ (113000/E0.804+191) / t ]12
RF = 1 if >1500 CVD and 2 if <1500 CVD
N/A
N/A
N/A
in microstrain
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/v)^4.5337
N = 1.41*10^-8*(1/v)^4.5337
1/v =
1/v =
v =

for 80 % reliability
for 90 % reliability

(3630000/(4.1656*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
1187.96004
841.78E-06
Allowable Vertical strain
Comparison of allowable strain with actual strain(from IITPAVE)
Values given below are micro strain
Allowable
Actual
462 micro Strain
414 micro Strain
0 micro Strain
0 micro Strain
842 micro Strain
580 micro Strain

Tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers

Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade

The selected section is safe

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IITPAVE Result

No. of layers
3
E values (MPa)
1700.00 143.00 44.70
Mu values
0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm)
100.00 475.00
single wheel load (N) 20500.00
tyre pressure (MPa)
0.56
Dual Wheel
Z
R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ
epT
epR
100.00 0.00-0.1890E 0.8840E 0.7053E0.1904E-01 0.7266E0.4384E-03 0.4137E-03 0.2718E-03
100.00L 0.00-0.1890E0.1883E-01-0.3386E-01-0.1904E-01 0.7266E0.1192E-02 0.4137E-03 0.2718E-03
100.00 155.00-0.1458E 0.6476E 0.8231E-01-0.8489E-01 0.7381E0.2360E-03 0.3940E-03-0.5490E-04
100.00L 155.00-0.1458E0.1743E-01-0.6498E-01-0.8489E-01 0.7381E0.8179E-03 0.3940E-03-0.5490E-04
575.00 0.00-0.2273E-01 0.3446E-01 0.2935E-01-0.3893E-02 0.4723E0.3151E-03 0.2248E-03 0.1765E-03
575.00L 0.00-0.2284E-01 0.2324E-02 0.7949E-03-0.3893E-02 0.4723E0.5354E-03 0.2246E-03 0.1784E-03
575.00 155.00-0.2454E-01 0.3690E-01 0.3379E-01-0.5199E-02 0.4856E0.3446E-03 0.2354E-03 0.2060E-03
575.00L 155.00-0.2454E-01 0.2453E-02 0.1479E-02-0.5200E-02 0.4856E0.5797E-03 0.2354E-03 0.2060E-03

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