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Road PDF
Road PDF
• By
• P L Bongirwar, M Tech, FNAE
• Former Principal Secretary PWD
• Advisor Larsen and Toubro
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• potholesrevised0001.pdf
Usage of Cement
• Cement is oldest popular and economical additive
• Cement has tremendous potential in construction industry
• Cement is extensively used in Building and Bridge construction
• However use of cement for road construction is limited even
though has tremendous potential
• Improvement in concrete technology has enabled us to get cement
concrete of very high strength, early strength. Self compact
concrete requiring no vibration etc
• Usage of cement can create more durable roads requiring least
maintenance hence justifiable on criterion of life cycle cost
• Introduction of new equipment, additives , and new research has
narrowed d the gap between bituminous road and concrete roads
in terms of initial cost
Infrastructure Development of NE
region
• Honorable Prime Minister has announced that
GOI intends to spend 1 lakh crores in next three
years in NE region for road improvement
• We need to develop new technologies which
allow local marginal materials
• By adopting cemented base and sub base we can
use 75% of marginal materials
• Paneled concrete with base and sub base of local
materials and CRCP can address the problems of
steep grade, sharp curves and heavy rainfall for
hilly areas
Cement based Technologies
• Sub grade improvement using cement stabilization techniques
• Cemented drainage layer to get permeability of 350m/day
• Cemented base to reduce cost
• Continuous reinforced concrete pavement
• Precast Pretensioned panel concrete technology
• White topping
• Paneled concrete technology
• Self Compact Concrete for Village Roads
• Cement grouted Bituminous mix
• Grouted seal coat for conventional carpe
• Paneled concrete technology to revive old damaged village
roads
• Controlled low strength material for trech filling
Urban Road Problems
• Urban Bituminous roads suffer damages in
Monsoon in the form of potholes and heavy
damage to surface
• This leads to slowing of trafic,accidents and
public criticism
• Heavy expenditure on temporary and permanent
repairs to give relief leads to public criticism
• Discomfort to public has lead to petition in court
and action taken by local authorities being
monitored by court
Causes of Damage To Urban roads
• Flooding of roads due to inadequate storm water system
• Embankment being virtually absent the sub surface drain do
not function effectively
• The standing truck causes surface cracks allowing water to
enter damaging the road crust
• Frequent braking action and wearing coat not being designed
to sustain heavy tractive frequent force causes damages
specially at junction
• Not able to follow speciation for DBM /BC in respect of
maintaining temperature at laying and compaction
• Absence of god quality bitumen
• Bituminous treatment is not fuel spillage resistant
• Failure of research institutes/academicians to evolve
specifications to suit urban problems
Types of Road Pavement
Pavement
Flexible Rigid
Composite
Flexible CGBM CRCP
Jointed Paneled
Paneled concrete-1900
Rs/sqm
Flexible Pavement-1927
Rs/sqm
Paneled concrete-1900
Rs/sqm
Flexible Pavement-1927
Rs/sqm