Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work Upgradation of Kuruchi - Poovalur Road Km 0/0 - 4/2

Carriageway width Single lane

Classification of road ODR

Design life 10

Initial traffic (A) (in both direction) 278

(CVD)
Traffic growth rate 5

Year of traffic census 2019

Terrain Plain

Current year 2019

Construction period 1

CBR Values of subgrade used for Yes

calculcation of 80th Percentile 3,5,3,5,5,3
CBR Calcuation

80th Percentile CBR 3.8

Whether subgrade to be replace No
with borrow material
CBR of select sub grade (borrow
material)
Whether stage construction Yes
involved
If yes, life of bituminous layers 5 Years

Grade of Bitumen for wearing VG30

course and binder course

TNHD_Pave_V 3.1 1/6 Released in - Jul.2015

 Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data
Initial Traffic after completion of =278x(1+5%)^(2019-2019+1)x1
construction
292 CVD

Whether Axle Load Survey No

conducted?
If yes, VDF value from Axle Load 0
Survey
Vehicle Damage Factor used for 3.5
design traffic
Lane Distribution Factor 1

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

For 10 Years =365x292x((1+0.05)^10-1)x1x3.5/0.05/1000000

4.69 MSa

For 5 Years =365x292x((1+0.05)^5-1)x1x3.5/0.05/1000000

2.06 MSa

% volume of air voids (Va) to be 4.5

adopted in DBM
% volume of bitumen (Vb) to be 11.5
adopted in DBM
Type of Binder Course Adopted DBM

Stage construction can be Rs. 6500.00

adopted
Rate of DBM used for cost Rs. 7500.00
analysis
Note:
On the basis of economic analysis BM can be adopted upto 57 mm
Stage construction can be adopted

TNHD_Pave_V 3.1 2/6 Released in - Jul.2015

 80th and 90th percentile CBR values

Entered CBR Values

3,5,3,5,5,3
120

100

80

60
90 3.4 y = -25x + 175
90 40 3.4 3.4 90
Percentile ---->

80 3.8
80 20 3.8 3.8 80

0
0 1 2 3 4 5

CBR ---->

Equation of the CBR graph is y = -25x + 175

a b c d
-25 0 0 + 175
90
80
CBR values for 90 80
3.40 3.80

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 Design of flexible pavement - strain check
Upgradation of Kuruchi - Poovalur Road Km 0/0 - 4/2

CBR = 3.8

Poisons ratio for cemented layers 0.25

Poisons ratio for all the other layers 0.35

Assumed Layer thickness for 1.Granular Base and Granular Subbase

BC = 30 80 Thickness of BC & DBM
DBM = 50

WMM = 225 455 Thickness of GSB + WMM

GSB = 230
535

MSA 2.06 Bitumen layer IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

4.69 Granular layer
5 Yrs = 2.06
10 Yrs = 4.69
15yrs = 8.05

Resilient modulus (M)

M Subgrade = 10*CBR For CBR <= 5

0.64
= 17.6*(CBR) For CBR > 5
M Subgrade = 38.00
M Granular = 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45
= 119.376467
M Granular = 119

DBM MR of Bituminous layers

For BM Table 7.1 of IRC 37-2012 (For DBM)
2300 VG10 Temp 20oC
o
500 2000 VG10 Temp 25 C
M Bitumen = 1700 700 1700 VG30 Temp 35oC
3000 VG40 Temp 35oC

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 Allowable Strain Calculation
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 = 0.5161 x C x 10^ - 4 x {1/εt}^3.89 x [1/MR]^0.854 for 90 % reliability
Where C = 10^M, M=(4.84x (Vb /(Va+Vb)-0.69))
Va = 4.5 Vb = 11.5
1/εt = 1870.90176 #VALUE!
εt = 534.50E-06 Allowable Tensile strain
εt
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the cemented base

Not Applicable

N= RF x [ (113000/E0.804+191) / εt ]12 RF = 1 if >1500 CVD and 2 if <1500 CVD

N= N/A
1/εt = N/A
εt = N/A in microstrain
εt = 000.00E+00 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 = (4690000/(4.1656*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
1/εv = 1257.02485

εv = 795.53E-06 Allowable Vertical strain

Comparison of allowable strain with actual strain(from IITPAVE)

Values given below are micro strain

Allowable Actual
Tensile strain at the bottom of bituminous layers 535 micro Strain 527 micro Strain
0 micro Strain 0 micro Strain
Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade 796 micro Strain 789 micro Strain

The selected section is safe

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 IITPAVE Result

No. of layers 3
E values (MPa) 1700.00 119.00 38.00
Mu values 0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm) 80.00 455.00
single wheel load (N) 20500.00
tyre pressure (MPa) 0.56
Dual Wheel
Z R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ epT epR
80.00 0.00-0.2244E 0.1142E 0.9270E0.1912E-01 0.9354E0.5580E-03 0.5272E-03 0.3564E-03
80.00L 0.00-0.2244E0.3242E-01-0.4748E-01-0.1912E-01 0.9354E0.1651E-02 0.5272E-03 0.3564E-03
80.00 155.00-0.1605E 0.7586E0.4534E-01-0.9706E-01 0.9416E0.2413E-03 0.4886E-03-0.1498E-03
80.00L 155.00-0.1605E0.2730E-01-0.8357E-01-0.9706E-01 0.9416E0.1023E-02 0.4886E-03-0.1498E-03
535.00 0.00-0.2627E-01 0.3878E-01 0.3267E-01-0.4679E-02 0.5954E0.4309E-03 0.3071E-03 0.2377E-03
535.00L 0.00-0.2624E-01 0.2780E-02 0.8343E-03-0.4676E-02 0.5954E0.7238E-03 0.3072E-03 0.2380E-03
535.00 155.00-0.2840E-01 0.4186E-01 0.3745E-01-0.6626E-02 0.6145E0.4719E-03 0.3252E-03 0.2751E-03
535.00L 155.00-0.2840E-01 0.2951E-02 0.1554E-02-0.6620E-02 0.6145E0.7890E-03 0.3250E-03 0.2753E-03

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