S.J.C.

Institute of Technology, Chickballapur

Department of Civil Engineering
Tutorial – II
Subject : Pavement Design Code : 10CV833
Semester : VIII ‘A & B’ Date : 12-04-2018
Staff : Sathish Y A
Unit – III
1 Explain how ESWL is found out by
i) Equal stress criteria
ii) Equal deflection criteria
2 What is ESWL? Mention the various factors affecting the ESWL, state the importance of ESWL.
3 Explain the concept of ESWL. How is it determined graphically for tandem dual wheel assembly?
4 Calculate the ESWL of a dual wheel assembly carrying 2044 kg each for pavement thickness of 150 mm,
200 mm and 250 mm. Centre to centre tyre spacing is 270 mm and distance between walls of tyres is 110
mm.
5 Determine ESWL for a dual tandem wheel load assembly, where each wheel is 60 kN with contact
pressure of 0.6 MPa. Center to center distance between dual tandem axle is 1600 mm and center to center
spacing of dual wheel is 800 mm. Determine ESWL at 350 mm and 700 mm depth.
Unit – IV
6 Explain with examples, how are the flexible pavement design methods classified.
7 Explain the Mcleod method of highway pavement design.
8 Write a equation recommended IRC:37-2001 for the computation of design traffic. Explain each term.
How are the values obtained?
9 Explain briefly CBR method by cumulative standard axle load for the design of flexible highway
pavements.
10 Design a highway pavement for a wheel load of 4100 kg with a tyre pressure of 5 kg/cm2 by Mcleod
method. The plate bearing test carried out on subgrade soil using 30 cm diameter plate yielded pressure
of 2.5 kg/cm2 after 10 repetitions of load at 0.5 cm deflection.
11 Design the flexible pavement by Triaxial method using the following data:
E – value of subgrade soil = 100 kg/cm2 E – value of base course = 400 kg/cm2
2
E – value of 8 cm thick bituminous surface = 1000 kg/cm Design wheel load = 6000 kg
Radius of contact area = 15 cm Traffic coefficient = 1.5
Rainfall coefficient = 0.6 Design deflection = 0.25 cm
12 Design the pavement by Triaxial method using the following data:
Wheel load = 51 kN Radius of contact area = 150 mm
Traffic coefficient = 1.5 Rainfall coefficient = 0.9
Design deflection = 2.5 mm E – value of subgrade soil = 10 N/mm2
2
E – value of base course material = 40 N/mm
E – value of 75 mm thick bituminous concrete surface = 100 N/mm2
13 Design the pavement thickness by California ‘R’ value method using the following data:
i) Traffic index = 10.5
ii) C – of base course = 15,
iii) C – of 7.5 cm thick bituminous surface course = 65.

The results on subgrade soil as under

Pressure (kg/cm2)
Moisture content (%) R – value
Expansion Exudation
17 65 0.130 48.5
20 42 0.095 34.0
23 15 0.045 22.0
14 Design a flexible pavement by CBR method based on IRC:37-2001 recommendations using the
following data:
i) Pavement : 2 lane
ii) Traffic volume : 700 CV/day
iii) Road construction period : 3 years
iv) Rate of growth of traffic : 8%
v) Lane distribution factor : 0.75
vi) Design size : 15 years
vii) Vehicle damage factor : 3.5
viii) Subgrade CBR :6%
Unit – V
15 Explain the following:
a) Modulus of subgrade reaction
b) Relative stiffness of slab to subgrade
c) Equivalent radius of resisting section
d) Critical load positions
16 Explain the factors affecting design of rigid pavements or CC pavements.
17 Calculate the stresses at interior, edge and corner regions of a C.C pavement using Westergaard’s stress
equations use the following data: wheel load = 5100 kg (51kN), E = 3 x 10 5 kg/cm2 (0.3x108 kN/m2),
µ = 0.15, pavement thickness = 18 cm, modulus of subgrade reaction = 6 kg/cm 3 (6.0x104 kN/m3), radius
of concrete area = 15 cm.
18 Calculate the stresses at interior, edge and corner of CC pavement by Westergaard’s analysis.
Radius of concrete area = 150 mm E – value of concrete = 0.32 x 105 N/mm2
Wheel load = 60 kN µ = 0.15
Thickness of pavement = 28cm = 280mm Modulus of subgrade reaction, K = 0.08 N/mm3