CHAPTER VII
Structural Design of Pavements
Examples
Tewodros N.
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Example 1
Given
The road is to be constructed is urban interstate highway
- ESAL = 2x106
- Damage = one week for water to drain/ the pavement will be exposed
for 30% of the time
- AC surfacing Mr = 450,000 lb/m2
- Granular base Mr = 31,000 lb/m2
- Granular sub base Mr = 13,500 lb/m2
- Subgrade CBR = 6
Design suitable pavement structure
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A flexible pavement is designed using TRL-
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road, which is expected to serve the traffic
load shown in the table below. The design Chainage Soil type CBR Axle load Number
(Kg) per day
life of the pavement is 15 years and the 0+000 Gravel 23
traffic is expected to be opened for traffic 2+500 “ 21 6350 600
in 2018. Two pavement structures are 5+000 “ 24 7260 400
recommended based on the subgrade soil 7+500 “ 25 8160 200
as shown in table below; one form from 10+000 “ 23 9070 140
chainage 0+000 to 10+000 ( surface 12+500 Stiff clay 5 9980 60
dressing surfacing, 200mm crushed stone 15+000 “ 3 10890 40
base course and 150mm gravel subgrade 17+000 “ 3 11780 30
course), and the other from 10+000 to 20+000 “ 4 12700 30
20+000 (surface dressing surfacing, 200mm
crushed stone base course and 450mm
gravel subase course). Review the adequacy
of the designed pavement structures if the
directional split of heavy vehicles in the
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predominant direction is 60%.
Example 3
A flexible pavement is to be designed using the AASHTO and ERA design procedure from the
design period of 15 years. Two alternative surfacing ( double surface treatment and asphalt
concrete) were suggested to be considered for economical analysis. The traffic volume and axle
load survey were made in 2015 on both directions and the results are shown in tables below.
The subgrade soil CBR values are as given in table below. The pavement structure will be well
drained and 1.0 could be taken as the coefficient for both layers. The material specifications are
as given in table. Assuming that the construction takes place in three years, and the traffic
grows at annual rate of 4.5%, design a flexible pavement structure using AASHTO and ERA
design procedure and for both asphalt concrete and surface treatment surfacing. Assume
change in SI= 2.5, R = 95% and standard deviation is 0.4.
Note i. You have to select the heavier lane for your design ESAL.
ii. Resilient modulus of subgrade soil = 1500*CBR
iii. The layer coefficient of the surface treatment can be assumed to be zero.
Resilient Resilient Strength
Material Layer Modulus Modulus Coefficient
(Mpa) (Psi) ai
Crushed stone Sub base 104 10572 0.11
Crushed stone Base 241 34928 0.16
Asphalt concrete Surface 2500 362319 0.40
Left Lane Right Lane
Vehicle
Example 3 Cont…
Axle Load (Kg) Axle Load (Kg)
Catagory No of
axle 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Buses 2 9320 8640 8700 13100
2 7360 11460 7900 9200
Vehicle Volume
2 5440 9400 4440 8440 Category in 2015
Med. Trucks 2 4660 5000 3820 6780
Cars (V1) 5
2 2680 2940 3540 6640
L/Rovers (V2) 25
2 3060 3940 3600 6380
Buses (V3) 27
Heavy 3 10640 13560 11265 8080 7480 8000
Trucks Medium trucks (V4) 50
3 9285 10590 12180 6720 8820 9860
Heavy Trucks (V5) 38
3 5385 10660 11650 7400 6020 6100
Trucks and Trailers (V6) 10
Articulated 4 6800 7900 8100 7300 5920 7380 6930 7145
Truck
4 7020 8000 7950 8040 6080 7200 7205 8100
4 6900 7910 8100 7810 6205 6880 6905 7590
Station 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48 50
(Km)
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CBR 6 7 6 5 7 5 5 6 4 7 5 6 5 7 5 6 7 6
4.5 3.9 2.9
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THANK YOU!
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