CE 670
Advanced Pavement Design
(3-0-3)
Catalog Data : CE 670:
Advanced Pavement Design. Credit 3.
Non-linear analysis; fatigue and permanent deformation; back calculation of
layer moduli; mechanistic empirical design methods; theories of pavement
behavior; application of theory to the analysis and design of airport and
highway pavement systems including rehabilitation design and computer
applications; development of improved design and rehabilitation practices and
procedures.
Prerequisite: CE 574.
Textbooks:. Yoder and Witczak, Principles of Pavement Design.
Reference: Library and Web.
COURSE OUTLINE
1. Initial considerations in the pavement design process:
1.1. General considerations
1.2. Roadbed soils
1.3. Base and subbase materials
1.4. Paving materials
1.5. drainage design
1.6. Measures of pavement performance
1.7. Vehicle, traffic and environmental considerations
1.8. Variability and reliability in pavement design.
2. Modeling of pavement behavior:
2.2. Empirical and Mechanistic pavement models.
2.3. Rutting.
2.4. Fatigue
2.5. Thermal cracking
2.6. Pavement roughness.
3. Flexible pavement design:
3.1. Basic principles
3.2. AASHTO 2002
3.3. Other design methods
3.4. Pavement shoulder.
4. Rigid pavement design:
4.1. Basic principles
4.2. AASHTO 2002
4.3. Other methods
4.4. shoulder and composite pavements.
5. Overlay design:
5.1. Flexible
5.2. Rigid
5.3. Composite and combinations.
6. Pavement response analysis (including performance):
6.1. Layered systems.
6.2. linear
6.3. Nonlinear
6.4. Viscoelastic
6.5. Combination.
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