Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work

Carriageway width

Intermediate lane

Classification of road

MDR

Design life

15

Initial traffic (A) (in both direction)

(CVD)

1402

Traffic growth rate

Year of traffic census

2014

Terrain

Hilly

Current year

2015

Construction period

CBR Values of subgrade used for

calculcation of 80th Percentile
CBR Calcuation

Yes
9.1,8.2,8.51,9.2

80th Percentile CBR

Whether subgrade to be replace
with borrow material

8.31
No

CBR of select sub grade (borrow

material)
Whether stage construction
involved

Yes

If yes, life of bituminous layers

5 Years

Grade of Bitumen for wearing

course and binder course

VG40

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Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Initial Traffic after completion of
construction

=1402x(1+5%)^(2015-2014+1)x1
1546 CVD

Whether Axle Load Survey

conducted?

No

If yes, VDF value from Axle Load

Survey

Vehicle Damage Factor used for

design traffic

2.5

Lane Distribution Factor

Design Traffic
For 15 Years

1
=365 * ( (1+r)^n - 1) * A * D * F )/ r
=365x1546x((1+0.05)^15-1)x1x2.5/0.05/1000000
30.44 MSa

For 5 Years

=365x1546x((1+0.05)^5-1)x1x2.5/0.05/1000000
7.80 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

Rs. 6125.00

Rate of DBM used for cost

analysis

Rs. 7467.00

Note:
On the basis of economic analysis BM can be adopted upto 60 mm
Stage construction can be adopted

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80th and 90th percentile CBR values

120
100

Entered CBR Values

9.1,8.2,8.51,9.2

80
60

Percentile ---->

40

90
90
80
80

20
0

8.232757865
= -343.43x3 + 8906.5x2 - 76980x
8.232757865 y8.232757865
90 + 221815
8.309250961
8.309250961 8.309250961
80
2

10

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

CBR values for

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y = -343.43x3 + 8906.5x2 - 76980x + 221815

90
8.23

a
b
-343.43
+8906.5
90.00003133
79.99940513
80
8.31

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c
-76980

d
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Design of flexible pavement - strain check

0

CBR

8.31

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

10

DBM

10

WMM

150

GSB

400

20

Thickness of BC & DBM

550

Thickness of GSB + WMM

570
MSA

7.80 Bitumen layer

5 Yrs

30.44 Granular layer

7.80

10 Yrs

17.74

15yrs

30.44

IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

Resilient modulus (M)

M Subgrade

=
=
M Subgrade =

10*CBR

M Granular

0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45

233.470613
233

M Granular

=
=
=

0.64

17.6*(CBR)
68.24

For CBR <= 5

For CBR > 5

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

DBM
For BM

M Bitumen

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500
700

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Allowable Strain Calculation

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
Where C =

for 80 % reliability
for 90 % reliability

M=(4.84x (Vb /(Va+Vb)-0.69))

Va =
Vb =
4.5
11.5
2634.48394
#VALUE!
379.58E-06
Allowable Tensile strain

10^M,

1/t =
t =
t
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the cemented base
Not Applicable
N=
N=
1/t =
t =
t =

RF x [ (113000/E0.804+191) / t ]12
N/A
N/A

RF = 1 if >1500 CVD and 2 if <1500 CVD

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

(30440000/(1.41*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
2411.43846
414.69E-06
Allowable Vertical strain
Comparison of allowable strain with actual strain(from IITPAVE)
Values given below are micro strain
Allowable
Actual
380 micro Strain
55 micro Strain
0 micro Strain
0 micro Strain
415 micro Strain
440 micro Strain

Tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers

Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade

The bituminous layer is safe in tensile strain check

The section is unsafe in compression at top of subgrade

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IITPAVE Result

No. of layers
3
E values (MPa)
1700.00 233.00 68.24
Mu values
0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm)
20.00 550.00
single wheel load (N) 20500.00
tyre pressure (MPa)
0.56
Dual Wheel
Z
R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ
epT
epR
20.00 0.00-0.5622E0.1481E0.1288E0.5772E-02 0.6955E0.2737E-03 0.5513E-04 0.7049E-04
20.00L 0.00-0.5622E0.2815E0.2789E0.5772E-02 0.6955E0.1571E-02 0.5513E-04 0.7048E-04
20.00 155.00-0.3692E-01-0.3160E0.9275E0.9819E-01 0.5460E 0.2343E-03 0.1266E-04-0.4729E-03
20.00L 155.00-0.3693E-01-0.6047E-01-0.1443E0.9819E-01 0.5460E 0.1491E-03 0.1266E-04-0.4729E-03
570.00 0.00-0.2739E-01 0.4241E-01 0.3619E-01-0.4669E-02 0.3395E0.2356E-03 0.1688E-03 0.1328E-03
570.00L 0.00-0.2664E-01 0.2253E-02 0.1857E-03-0.4678E-02 0.3397E0.4029E-03 0.1687E-03 0.1278E-03
570.00 155.00-0.2881E-01 0.4586E-01 0.4064E-01-0.7035E-02 0.3503E0.2536E-03 0.1790E-03 0.1488E-03
570.00L 155.00-0.2881E-01 0.2466E-02 0.9252E-03-0.6873E-02 0.3503E0.4396E-03 0.1792E-03 0.1487E-03

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