TYPE DESIGN FOR 200-METRE STONES THE INDIAN ROADS CONGRESSIRC: 26.1967 TYPE DESIGN FOR 200-METRE STONES Published by THE INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS Jamnagar House, Shabjahan Road, New Delhi-110011 1979 Price Rs Rate 24 (Plus Packing & Postage)IRC: 26.1967 First published in November, 1967 Reprinted: August, 1979 (Rights of Publication and of Translation are reserved) Printed at PRINTAID, New Delhi-110 020 IRC : 26.1967 TYPE DESIGN FOR 200-METRE STONES 1, INTRODUCTION The type design for *200-Metre’ Stones 2s shown in Fig. 1, was prepared by the Specifications and Standards Committee (personne! given below) and was approved by the Executive Committee in their meeting held on the 24th and 25th February 1967. It was finally approved for publication by the Council in their meeting held at Nainital on the 30th September, 1967, for use on all roads in India, JM. Treban we Convenor SK: Rajagopalan Member-Secretary MEMBERS K.F. Antia B.D. Mathur ALP. Bagchi Prof. S. R. Mebta M.K. Chatterjee : R. Nagarajan D.C. Chaturvedi K.K. Nambiar B.K. Choksi Brig, R. J. Nerurkar S.N. Gupta K. Ramaswamy Reddy Harbinder Singh Dr. 0. S. Sagal Hukam Singh PLN, Sen Gupta CL.N, Iyengar S.N. Sinha PJ. Jagus Dr. N.S. Srinivasan M. B. Jayawant Dr. Bh. Subbaraju Dr. S.K. Khanna J. Subrahmanyam D.R. Kohli ‘Sujan Singh P.K. Lauria Prof. C. G. Swaminathan Mababir Prasad R. Thillainayagam 2.8. Marya : ‘The Chief Engineer, PWD Himachal Pradesh 2, MATERIALS: 200-Metre Stones shall be of locally available hard stone, well- dressed or of reinforced cement concrete. Nove: Existing Furlong Stones may be converted to 200-Metre Sion where economical.IRC : 26.1967 3. LOCATION AND FIXING 200-Metre Stones are to be located on the same side of the road as the one having the Kilometre Stones. The stones may be fixed in position with rammed. spails in moorum, lime-surkhi concrete of Jean cement concrete all round. They should be planted securely just beyond the edge of the formation with their side bearing the inscription facing and parallel to the centre line of the road. ‘The ‘manner of locating the stones when the road may be in embankment or cutting is illustrated in Fig, 2. 4. INSCRIPTION ‘The inscription carried by the stones shall be the, numerals 2,4, 6and 8 marked" in an ascending order in the direction of increasing kilometrage away from the starting station. The numerals shall be 80mm high and shall conform to the type as shown in the Plate. These may be either painted or, preferably, engraved. The colour of the numerals shall be black ona white background on all categories of roads. IRC: 26-1967 VARIES felt i a, : : git frauen soaisin | ot Moonun,cme-sunws | ‘ ononeve on uraw | ' Loom ‘CEMENT CONCRETE. [100#100-4100%, eee rlaproeiieoy FRONT ELEVATION SIDE ELEVATION tice ‘2Nos BARS 6mm 8, EACH 1400.mm LONG. gpeeset 0 800 —», 00 100%-150 #40 CASE OF STONE SLABS | ‘THE THICKNESS MAY BE 100mm OR WHAT IS LOCALLY h——380-—" | AVAILABLE SUBJECT TO A MINIMUM OF SOmm. SCHEDULE Aiea OF REINFORCEMENT WHEN R.C.C. IS USED 1, Type desiga for 200-Metre Stones ALL DIMENSIONS IN MILLIMETRESIRC : 26-1967 4} ————roapway ——___4 200-meTRE| “sHou.nen CARRIAGE WAY —stsnoULoER STONE: GROSS-SECTION + CARRIAGEWAY PLAN (i) WHEN ROAD IS IN EMBANKMENT f#——Roapway ~—»} SHOULOER. [-SHOULOER ~ ~~ at he—canniasewar—attie 7 waut, CROSS-SECTION CARRIAGEWAY 200-METRE STONE- amon PLAN (MN) WHEN ROAD IS IN CUTTING Fig. 2. Masiner of locating 200-Metre StonesLe 26-1967 RESS east IRC: 26.1967 PLATE DIME NSIONS (MILLIMETRES) FOR @Omm HEIGHT OF NUMERALS STANDARD NUMERALS OF 80 mm HEIGHT |