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Gravel Pavement Load Analysis and Design

The document contains tutorials and assignments related to pavement engineering, focusing on load analysis, pavement thickness requirements, and stress calculations. It includes problems on gravel pavement under uniform loads, equivalent standard axle loads for trucks, and the effects of temperature gradients on rigid pavement slabs. The assignments require calculations and evaluations based on given parameters and design criteria.

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Gravel Pavement Load Analysis and Design

The document contains tutorials and assignments related to pavement engineering, focusing on load analysis, pavement thickness requirements, and stress calculations. It includes problems on gravel pavement under uniform loads, equivalent standard axle loads for trucks, and the effects of temperature gradients on rigid pavement slabs. The assignments require calculations and evaluations based on given parameters and design criteria.

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Tutorial 1

A full-depth gravel pavement of unknown thickness is subjected to a uniform


surface load of 550kN/m2 on a circular area of radius 150mm. The elastic
modulus of the gravel layer is 10 times that of the subgrade.
a) Sketch the pavement structure.
b) Determine the minimum pavement thickness required if it is given that
the sub-grade can support a maximum vertical compressive stress of
110kN/m2.
c) At the minimum pavement thickness, what will be the maximum surface
deflection that will be experienced under the uniform load if E2=60
MN/m2?
Tutorial 2
Two loaded trucks of the same make each with a gross weight of 28
tons have the load distributed on the axles as follows:
LOAD (tons)
VEHICLE
Axle 1 Axle 2 Axle 3 Axle 4 TOTAL
Truck A 6.7 6.9 7.3 7.1 28
Truck B 4.0 5.8 9.9 8.3 28

a) Determine the equivalent standard axle load (ESAL) of each truck.


b) What in your opinion accounts for the difference in ESAL values of
the two trucks even though they all carry the same total tonnage
of load?
c) What would be your recommendation for loading of goods onto
trucks?
Assignment 1
Q.1
A full-depth gravel pavement of thickness 200mm carries a uniform
load of 600kN/m2 on a circular area of radius 15cm. The elastic
modulus of the gravel layer is 800MN/m2 and that of the subgrade is
50MN/m2.
a) Sketch the pavement structure
b) Check whether the thickness is adequate given the following
design criteria:
• Sub-grade compressive stress, σc ≤ 70kN/m2
• Maximum surface deflection, ∆≤5.0mm
Q. 2
The data in the table below is the expected AADT of three categories of
trucks by axle configuration in the design lane collected for a road to be
designed. Determine the total contributions of the three vehicle
categories to the cumulative standard axles over the 15-year design life
of the road. [Assume that traffic is expected to grow on average at an
annual rate of 4.5% during the design period.]
Truck AAD Load
Category T Equivalency
Factor
1 168 1.025
2 113 2.341
3 65 5.813
Q. 3
A rigid pavement slab 3.7m wide, 9.0m long and 25cm thick lies on a
granular base whose strength in terms of modulus of sub-grade reaction (k)
is 50MN/m3. The following are the material properties of the concrete:
• E=35×103 MN/m2
• µ=0.15
• α=9x10-6/oC
If there is a temperature gradient of 0.06oC/cm across the depth of the slab,
determine the following:
a) the the radius of relative stiffness of the slab
b) the curling stress coefficients Cx and Cy
c) the temperature difference between the top and bottom of the slab
d) the maximum curling stresses in the X and Y directions.

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