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HEADS Pro is widely used by various Govt. Departments and Trainings are conducted on regular
basis. Internet based Training and On_Site Trainings to the users are also available on request.
The development of effective road transport system is the primary need of any developing country and the
upgrading of existing road network system is essential for the developed countries as the capacities of roads
in urban and non-urban roads are reached to saturation level with the passage of time.
The road development involves very high degree of attention by the project Authorities as well as by the
Consultants, Engineers and Contractors. Any mistake May result in expenditure of a few millions which
could have been avoided. Normally the design of route alignment and the pavement structure decide the
cost of a highway project and for this job the best experienced manpower and best available tools must be
deployed.
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Highway Design software which must be capable of handling any type of situation and the best manpower is
the engineers and other technical staff who have the essential educational background and sufficient
experience in working for similar projects and most essentially have required level of training to use high
quality design software products.
The UTM Coordinates enables the user to import the Ground Model and Contours to Google Earth or similar
other satellite Images to perfectly view the surroundings and the existing Land use.
The Process is Supported by Traversing with closing error corrections by Bowditch, Transit and Closed Link,
EDM applications, Triangulation, Contouring, Converting Coordinates from Transverse Markator (TM) to
Universal Transverse Markator (UTM) as obtained from GPS instruments.
The area may be identified by site reconnaissance survey and using Topographic maps and
satellite imageries. Elevation data may be downloaded from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography
Mission) and contours have been generated for the entire area under the study. This enables the
users to produce Plan, Profile, Cross Section and BoQ of the design work without carrying out
Topographical Survey at field.
OGL AND PROPOSED DESIGN PROFILE The Long section drawings are produced with maximum
information to make the construction easier. In case of dual carriageway roads with service roads on either
side the vertical profile of each carriageway and service roads can be shown with various design details.
The information in Long section drawings are also in international standard and fulfills the requirements of
most of the countrys standard.
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PAVEMENT DESIGN
HEADS Pro offers AASHTO method of Pavement design for Flexible Pavement with stage construction
facilities, Rigid Pavement by CRCP & JRCP, Pavement Overlay by Benkelman Beam Deflection test data
and Design of Bituminous Mixes of Bituminous Concrete, Semi Dense Bituminous Concrete, Dense
Bituminous Macadam & Bituminous Macadam based on Marshall Test data for Bulk Density, Stability and
Flow and Blended Grading of aggregates with diagram. All the designs are generated with detailed
illustrated design calculation report with relevant references to AASHTO Tables & Charts. The facility for
computation of Equivalent Standard Axles in Millions (MSA) is also available with this system.
Pavement Design
HIGHWAY DRAINAGE
HEADS Pro provides facility for the Hydraulic design of Highway Drainage using rainfall data in the region.
Rate Analysis is also available for various Road and Bridge items. The detailed estimation of Bill of
Quantities for construction items will enable speedy estimation of the project cost.
Highway Drainage
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OPTIMIZING VERTICAL PROFILE: There are two different situations for Optimizing Vertical Profile. One is
Optimization for Earthwork in Cut & Fill. This situation occurs when the road alignment is taken through
virgin ground and there is significant ups and downs in the ground. In such cases it is the engineers
requirement to design the earthwork up to the formation level with due consideration for HFL and to keep
the quantum of borrow earth as minimum as possible.
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HEADS Pro in
Design of Roads in Hilly Terrain requires special techniques and the appropriate technology is available with
HEADS Pro to design Hair Pin bends, Provision of Retaining wall on the Fill side and Gabbion wall on the
cut side. Some times there is need for varying slopes on the cut side depending on the depth of the cut.
HEADS Pro interface facility takes care of all these requirements and produces Plan, Long Section and
Cross Section drawings following the project requirements with zero compromise.
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Provisions for Extra Widening following the countrys design standard is important in the design of Hill
Roads which is not available in the market available softwares, so the designer must be careful in selecting
the right software product to keep provisions of inside/outside/bothsides widening at curves.
Bearing Line datas processing is also another important feature in applying a software for Hill Road
design in combination with Cross Section Survey data. This must be checked for the software intended to
be used for Hill road design.
Hill Road design is best done with Extra widening and Bearing Line data
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For Widening of Hill Roads using Varying Slopes on Cut side depending on Depth and
using Gabion Wall on Cut side and Retaining wall on Fill/Valley side is best designed.
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HEADS Pro in
For the design of railways at design speed 120 KPH or more by following relevant International Standard,
HEADS Pro Rail is the most appropriate road design software.HEADS Pro creates 3 dimensional
perspective view of the terrain and the designed railway. It can convert the design output in LandXML format
and supports Visualization and Drive Through by compatible software. Drive through is helpful identifying the
unsafe sections of the designed motorway along with the surrounding features.
Industry Best Quality Construction drawings are produced as Ready to Print Form
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HEADS Pro in
Tunnel may be designed for Roads, Railways, Metro Rails, Hydroelectric Power, Mines etc. The
use of Robot Total Stations similar to Trimble S series [S8] the design is done in the simplest
way for complex situations and finally computing As-Built Over & Under Cut Quantity in respect of
Design Cut Quantity. The adjustment of Tunnel axis by curve fitting is done on As Built sections.
Cross Section Details with Quantities for Design Cut, As built Cut, Undercut, Overcut facilitated with
provisions for defining Pay Line around Cross section Boundary.
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Synthetic Unit Hydrograph is plotted by comparing sum of discharge for 1 hour interval of Time and
volume of 1 cm direct Runoff.
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HEADS Pro in
With In built formulas on components of Materials, Equipment and Labourer the Unit Item Rates
are computed for most of the Embankment, Pavement, Culvert, Bridge and other work in
worksheet.
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The strength of pavement is required by obtaining the Elastic modulus and Poissons ratio. The
various companies are producing Falling weight Deflectometer, one of them is Dynatest
(www.dynatest.com) and for analysis software HEADS Pro may be used for various options.
In HEADS Pro software option is available for Analysis for Layered pavement System. It may be
used for 2 or 3 or 4 layer Pavement system, where the Layers may be combined to define as a
Bound (Asphalt/Bituminous) Layer, Unbound layer (Granular Base), Sub Base and Sub Grade.
The input is required for Thickness of each Layer (excluding Subgrade), Modulus of Elasticity of
each Layer and Poissons ration of each Layer (excluding Subgrade).
The final result is produced as : Horizontal Strain, Vertical Stress and Vertical Deflection at
the interface of each two Layers. The above results are improved by incorporating
Geosynthetics or any other type of Reinforcement is used. The Analysis Report is generated with
details of all Formulae and Calculation Steps and is highly useful for the users.
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Selection of Geogrids
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Pavement without
Geosynthetics
6.488e-005
mm./mm.
Pavement with
Geosynthetics
3.604e-005
mm./mm.
Vertical Stress
0.824 N/sq.mm.(MPa)
0.773 N/sq.mm.(MPa)
Vertical Deflection
0.388 mm.
0.349 mm.
String based software generally starts functioning using the Detail Survey data primarily using Total Station
instrument. But there are a lot more tasks to do in an actual project, before obtaining the Detail Survey data.
These essential tasks are most commonly the Obtaining two Reference points at every 5 Kilometres using
GPS instrument, Using the GPS Co-ordinates carrying out Traverse Survey by using Total Station
instrument, Obtaining Correct Traverse Co-ordinates by Bowditch or Transit or Closed Link method followed
by installation of Reference Pillars to help in carrying out the Detail Survey. These are essential tasks for
any Detail Survey project. The GPS data is more reliable if obtained in the form of Longitude and Latitude
(than in the form of East North), the Long Lat data may be converted to Easting and Northing by using
correct parameters specific to the location in the globe. Once the GPS data are available in Easting and
Northing, these become usable by the Total Station instrument. The data conversion needs correct
parameters and the process is also quite cumbersome. Additionally the Correction of Traverse Co-ordinates
to install Reference Pillars also needs considerable amount of time and effort by the engineers at the project
site. Here comes HEADS Pro as the complete one stop solution for all these requirements by the site
engineers at simplest effort. Being a String based software HEADS Pro is very versatile to handle various
site situations and eventually comes as an All Complete Solution for various Transportation Engineering
projects.
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Alignment design for Highways, Low cost rural roads, Tunnels, Railways, MRT, LRT etc.
Producing best formatted construction drawings for PLAN, PROFILE, Cross Sections
Glass
Generating Site Setting out details with desired modifications as and when required,
String Tables with Elevations at Normal Cross fall & Super elevated sections for construction by
advanced motor grader and Paver.
Low Cost Rural Road design using IRC SP 19, SP 20 & SP 72.
Optimized road profile design for Exact Quantity of Pavement, Profile correction & Overlay.
Design of Hill Roads with Sharp bends and variety of design conditions.
Expressway design with Speed higher than 100 KPH following AASHTO.
Pavement design & Cost Estimation with Analysis for Unit Item Rates.
Built-in CAD engine for viewing and editing drawings compatible to AutoCAD.
DXF Plan, Profile & Cross Section Drawings compatible to all CAD software.
Long Section Drawing with Alignment & Super Elevation details, even in Pieces.
Straight forward interactive design for Main Alignment & Interchange Loops.
Irregular occurrence of Service Roads on either side and change of cross section.
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Other HEADS range of products are HEADS Rail and HEADS Site,
HEADS Rail have special applications for their Geometrics for applications in all types of Rail Routes and
Rail Yards, Mass & Light Rail transit system, Metro Rails, Mono Rails, etc.
HEADS Site is available for Township Planning, Land Grading, Cut Fill Quantity, Water Distribution System,
Planning for Airports, Open cast Mines using Traverse Survey, EDM, Coordinate Conversion, Digital Terrain
Model, SRTM Ground Elevation data from internet, Data aligning for GPS conversion in UTM system.
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