Introduction

1.Pavement design:
1.1 what is pavement design:
A highway pavement is a structure comprising of superimposed layers of handled

materials over the normal soil sub-grade, whose essential capacity is to disperse the

applied vehicle burdens to the sub-grade. The pavement structure ought to have the

option to give a surface of satisfactory riding quality, sufficient slide opposition, ideal

light reflecting attributes, and low clamor contamination. A definitive point is to

guarantee that the transmitted worries because of wheel load are adequately diminished,

with the goal that they won't surpass bearing limit of the sub-grade. Two kinds of

pavements are commonly perceived as filling this need, in particular flexible pavements

and rigid pavements. Flexible pavements are those pavements that have low or null

flexural strength and their structural action is flexible under load. The wheel load will be

dispersed to wider area while acting on the pavement and as depth increase the stress will

decrease. The distortion of lower layers on to the surface layer is reflected by the flexible

pavement layers.

The goal of pavement design isn't just to fulfill a drawn out exhibition of the whole

pavement structure, yet in addition to save the asphalt layer from premature distress.
1.2 functions of pavement:
Reduce the traffic loading to avoid any damage to the subgrade.

Provide vehicle access between two points.

Meet environment requirements

Reasonable economy
1.3 Flexible pavement:

Our pavement design is centred about flexible pavements

Flexible Pavements is of deep foundations that is made of multiple fairly thin layers, its

typically asphalt and has some energy consumption due to transportation. This kind of

pavement deflects under load and usually lives 15-20 years.

Advantages of Flexible Pavement

• Adjusts to limited differential settlement

• Easily, quickly constructed and repaired

• Additional thickness can be added

Disadvantages of Flexible Pavement

• Properties may change over time as pavement ages

• Generally shorter service life before first rehabilitation

• May experience moisture problems

2.Present servicibility index (psi) :

The term present serviceability was adopted to represent the momentary

ability of pavement to serve traffic and the performance of the pavement
was represented by its serviceability history in conjunction with its load
application history. The PSI is only a proportion of the present in general
rating of a segment of interstate dependent on visual perception.

The Present Serviceability Index (PSI) is one common evaluator used to

describe the functional condition with respect to ride quality. Pavement
Condition Index (PCI) is another index commonly used to describe the
extent of distress on a pavement section

This PSI allows an agency to define what is the anticipated PSI when a road is rebuilt or
rehabilitated.
Serviceability was found to be influenced by longitudinal and transverse
profile as well as the extent of cracking and patching.

If research by experiment is to be successful, it is necessary to have clear-cut objectives for the

experiment and to analyze the observations and conditions through PSI in ways that are
consistent with the experiment design and objectives.
Results show that wearing course thickness of flexible pavement regression values of
the regression tree model is better than that of the AASHO model. This approach can be
easily and realistically performed to solve the optimization problems which do not have a
formulation or function about the solution.

If the measurements were made and present serviceability indexes computed at several times
during the lives of any particular set of pavements, their performance could be evaluated and
compared to help the highway department check its design methods and compare various
materials and construction techniques. If the level of serviceability is the criterion, the
design life is the period in which the pavement deteriorates from its initial level of
serviceability to its final level or minimum acceptable level of serviceability.
.Conclusion :

Pavement design is the major component in the road construction. Nearly one-third or one-half
of the total cost of construction , so careful consideration should be taken in design of
pavement. It shall be designed to accommodate current and predicted traffic needs in a safe,
durable, and cost-effective manner.
Throughout our project we maintained the importance of flexible pavements and how to deal
with them, within the calculations we assumed resilient modulus of the base and subbase
course and determined our Sn from the equation and not graphically. Most of our calculations
manually and in the software were approximately near to each other wereas a reduction in the
base layer thickness was needed in soil A both manually and in the software.

We conclude that determining our values in the software has more accuracy than manual
calculation, our main goal was obtaining reasonable, economical, and practical results.