Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work

Carriageway width

Classification of road

Design life

Initial traffic (A) (in both direction)

(CVD)
Traffic growth rate 5

Year of traffic census

Terrain

Current year

Construction period 0

CBR Values of subgrade used for Yes

calculcation of 80th Percentile
CBR Calcuation
80th Percentile CBR
7.6,7.65,7.44,6.91,7.50,6.87,7.5,6.88,7.24,7.22,7.55,7.78,7.45,7.15,6
.73,7.21,7.38,7.30,7.58,7.62,7.84
CBR values less than 3 are not considered
7.09

Whether subgrade to be replace Yes

with borrow material
CBR of select sub grade (borrow 8
material)
Whether stage construction No
involved
If yes, life of bituminous layers

Grade of Bitumen for wearing VG30

course and binder course

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 Initial Traffic after completion of #N/A
construction
#N/A

Whether Axle Load Survey No

conducted?
If yes, VDF value from Axle Load 0
Survey
Vehicle Damage Factor used for #N/A
design traffic
Lane Distribution Factor #N/A

Design Traffic =365 * ( (1+r)^n - 1) * A * D * F )/ r

For Years #N/A

#N/A

For 5 Years #N/A

#N/A

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 80th and 90th percentile CBR values
Entered CBR Values
7.6,7.65,7.44,6.91,7.50,6.87,7.5,6.88,7.24,7.22,7.55,7.78,7.45,7.15,6.73,7.2
1,7.38,7.30,7.58,7.62,7.84
Values entered as text and cbr less than 3 are eliminated

90 120 6.94
90 6.94 6.94 90
100
80 7.09
Percentile ---->

80 7.09 7.09 80
80

60

40

20

0
y = -50.09x2 + 636.8x - 1917.
0 CBR ---->
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
-20
Equation of the CBR graph is y = -50.09x2 + 636.8x - 1917.

ab -50.09 -50.09
c -+636.8
1917. -+636.8
1917.
CBR values for 90 80
6.938 7.090
5.775 5.623
6.94 7.09
Percentile
CBR 90
6.94 80
7.09 89.877
79.983

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 Design of flexible pavement - strain check
0

CBR = 7.09
poisons ratio to be used in iitpave design for all the layers 0.35
Assumed Layer thickness
BC = 40 bituminous layer thick
120
DBM = 80
WMM = 250 granular layer thickness: h
450
GSB = 200
570

MSA #N/A Bitumen layer

#N/A Granular layer
5 Yrs = #N/A
10 Yrs = #N/A
15yrs = #N/A

Resilient modulus (M)

M Subgrade = 10*CBR For CBR <= 5

= 17.6*(CBR) 0.64 For CBR > 5
= 61.65

M Granular = 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45

= 192.711977
= 193 2300 vg10 temp 20oC
2000 vg10 temp 25oC
M Bitumen = #N/A 1700 vg30 temp 35oC
3000 vg40 temp 35oC
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the bituminous layers
Calculation of Tensile strain

Nf = 2.21 x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 80 % reliability

Nf = 0.711 x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 90 % reliability
1/εt = #N/A
εt = #N/A Allowable Tensile strain
Vertical Compresive Strain at the bottom of the Granular sub base
Calculation of Vertical strain
N = 4.1656*10^-8*(1/εv)^4.5337 for 80 % reliability
N = 1.41*10^-8*(1/εv)^4.5337 for 90 % reliability
1/εv = #N/A
1/εv = #N/A
εv = #N/A Allowable Vertical strain

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 Strain Check with IIT PAVE Results

Allowable Strain
εt = #N/A Horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers
εv = #N/A Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade

Actual strain from IITPave

εt = 2.702E-04 Max value of ep T (for bituminous layer)

εv = 3.540E-04 Max value of ep Z (for GSB and WMM layers)

Values given below are micro strain

Allowable Actual
Horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers #N/A 270 micro Strain

Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade #N/A 354 micro Strain

#N/A

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 IITPAVE Result

No. of layers 3
E values (MPa) 1700.00 240.00 76.83
Mu values 0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm) 120.00 450.00
single wheel load (N) 20500.00
tyre pressure (MPa) 0.56
Dual Wheel
Z R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ epT epR
120.00 0.00-0.1882E 0.5423E 0.4254E0.1963E-01 0.4302E0.3099E-03 0.2702E-03 0.1773E-03
120.00L 0.00-0.1882E0.1047E-01-0.2698E-01-0.1963E-01 0.4302E0.7296E-03 0.2702E-03 0.1773E-03
120.00 155.00-0.1434E 0.4017E 0.3949E-01-0.9000E-01 0.4364E0.1752E-03 0.2577E-03-0.2997E-04
120.00L 155.00-0.1434E0.9580E-02-0.6072E-01-0.9000E-01 0.4364E0.4948E-03 0.2577E-03-0.2997E-04
570.00 0.00-0.2404E-01 0.3471E-01 0.2958E-01-0.4122E-02 0.2843E0.1939E-03 0.1365E-03 0.1077E-03
570.00L 0.00-0.2402E-01 0.2302E-02 0.6168E-03-0.4114E-02 0.2843E0.3260E-03 0.1366E-03 0.1070E-03
570.00 155.00-0.2586E-01 0.3739E-01 0.3367E-01-0.5416E-02 0.2926E0.2114E-03 0.1444E-03 0.1235E-03
570.00L 155.00-0.2586E-01 0.2475E-02 0.1338E-02-0.5654E-02 0.2926E0.3540E-03 0.1439E-03 0.1240E-03

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