PAVEMENT ENGINEERING
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - Curriculum Ingegneria dei trasportiCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/04 - Highways, railways and airports
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 30 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Detailed Course Content
1. ROAD PAVEMENT
Historical background. Pavement performances. Pavement Type: Flexible pavement, Rigid pavement, Special Pavement: Draining-Sound Absorbent, Composite.
2. PAVEMENT MATERIALS
Subgrade, Subbase, Drainage. Soil stabilization concept and methods. Asphalt Concrete. Properties and characteristics of binders and aggregates. Laboratory material characterization. Viscoelastic nature of asphalt and direct measure of stiffness. Types, properties and design of asphalt mixes. Marshall and Superpave mix Design. Resilient modulus, Dynamic modulus of asphalt concrete. Fatigue cracking, Rutting and permanent deformation. Harmonized European Specifications.
3. PAVEMENT DESIGN
Subgrade. Weather and Environment factors. Traffic and load distribution concepts. Load Equivalency Factors. Pavement performance and analysis period. Pavements catalogs. Empirical Methods. Mechanicistic-Empirical Methods.
4. PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE
Pavement Management Systems (PMS). Pavement Survey. Nondestructive tests. Bearing capacity, Unevenness, Skid resistance and surface texture, visual evaluation of Distress. Maintenance and rehabilitation of asphalt pavement. Overlay design.
Textbook Information
Guide for Design of Pavement Structures, 4th Edition, AASHTO, 1993.
Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, AASHTO, 2008.
Pavement Analysis and Design, Yang H. Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Highway Engineering - Pavements, Materials and Control of Quality. A. Nikolaides. CRC 2015
Pavement Engineering, Rajib B. Mallick, Tahar El-Korchi, CRC, 2nd edition, 2013