It is of two types
Flexible pavement or bituminous pavement or black
top pavement
Rigid pavement or cement concrete pavement or
white surface pavement
COMPARISON OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT & RIGID PAVEMENT
Min. CBR 2 %
Where
l= Radius of relative stiffness
E= modulus of elasticity of cement concrete ,
kg/cm
= poissonsratio for concrete= 0.15
h= slab thickness, cm
K= modulus of subgrade reaction, kg/cm
Westergaards stress equation for
wheel load
Stress at the interior(si)
Modified by Kelley
Warping stress(given by Bradbury)
Stress at the interior(sti)
Where,