Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work Widening from Single Lane to Intermediate Lane and

Improvements of Vadakumelur-Keelur-Pacharapalayam
road at km 7/6-9/2

Carriageway width Intermediate lane

Classification of road ODR

Design life 15

Initial traffic (A) (in both 644

direction) (CVD)
Traffic growth rate 5

Year of traffic census 2020

Terrain Plain

Current year 2020

Construction period 1
CBR Values of subgrade used for Yes
calculcation of 80th Percentile 6,6,7,7,7,7
CBR Calcuation

80th Percentile CBR 6.6

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

Grade of Bitumen for wearing VG30

course and binder course
Initial Traffic after completion of =644x(1+5%)^(0+1)x1
construction
Both Side Traffic 676 CVD

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 Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data
Whether Axle Load Survey No
conducted?
If yes, VDF value from Axle Load 0
Survey
Vehicle Damage Factor used for 3.9
design traffic
Lane Distribution Factor 0.75

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

For 15 Years =365x((1+0.05)^15-1)x676x0.75x3.9/0.05/1000000

15.57 MSa

For 5 Years =365x((1+0.05)^5-1)x676x0.75x3.9/0.05/1000000/0.60

6.65 MSa

% volume of air voids (Va) to be 4.5

adopted in DBM
% volume of bitumen (Vb) to be 10.5
adopted in DBM
Type of Binder Course Adopted BM

Stage construction can be Rs. 6390.00

adopted
Rate of DBM used for cost Rs. 7495.00
analysis
Note:
On the basis of economic analysis BM can be adopted upto 58 mm
Stage construction can be adopted
Kindly ensure that while preparing data and obtaining job mix formula for DBM for this work percent
volume of air voids (Va) is : 4.5 and percent volume of bitumen (Vb) is : 10.5

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Percentile
80th and 90th percentile CBR values
Entered CBR Values
6,6,7,7,7,7

120

100

80 90 0 6.300063001 0
90 6.300063001 6.300063001 90
y = -33.333x + 300
Percentile ---->

60 80 0 6.600066001 0
80 6.600066001 6.600066001 80
40

20

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

CBR ---->

Equation of the CBR graph is y = -33.333x + 300

a b c d
-33.333 0 0 + 300
90
80
CBR values for 90 80
6.30 6.60

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 Design of flexible pavement - strain check
Widening from Single Lane to Intermediate Lane and Improvements of Vadakumelur-Keelur-
Pacharapalayam road at km 7/6-9/2

Design CBR = 6.6

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 30 Thickness of BC On the basis of economic analysis
BM = 50 50 Thickness of BM BM can be adopted upto 58 mm

WMM = 250 545 Thickness of GSB + WMM

GSB = 295
625

MSA 6.65 Bitumen layer IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

15.57 Granular layer
5 Yrs with Factor = 6.65 5 Yrs = 3.99
15 Yrs = 15.57
20 Yrs = 15.57

Resilient modulus (M)

2
M Subgrade = 10*CBR For CBR <= 5 MR Eff = 2*(1-m )pa/d
= 17.6*(CBR) 0.64
For CBR > 5 m 0.35 Poisson's ration
MR Eff = 17.6x6.6^0.64 p 0.56 contact pressure
= 58.89
M Granular = 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45 a 150.8 Radius of circular
= 200.654995 contact area
M Granular = 201 d surface deflection
from IITPave

BM MR of Bituminous layers
For BM Table 9.2 of IRC 37-2018 (For DBM)
2300 VG10 Temp 20oC
500 2000 VG10 Temp 25oC
M Bitumen = 2000 700 2000 VG30 Temp 35oC
M BM = 700 3000 VG40 Temp 35oC

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 Allowable Strain Calculation
Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the bituminous Concrete

Calculation of Tensile strain

Nf = 1.6064 x C 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 = 10.5
1/εt = 2764.10569 2081.08
εt (80%)
εt = 0.00048052 Allowable Tensile strain(BM)
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 = (15570000/(4.1656*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
1/εv = 1637.89696

εv = 610.54E-06 (80%) 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 BM 481 micro Strain 480 micro Strain
Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade 611 micro Strain 398 micro Strain

The selected section is safe

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 IITPAVE Result

No. of layers 4
E values (MPa) 2000.00 700.00 201.00 58.89
Mu values 0.350.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm) 30.00 50.00 545.00
single wheel load (N) 20000.00
tyre pressure (MPa) 0.56
Dual Wheel
Z R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ epT epR
30.00 0.00-0.4963E+00-0.1464E+00-0.1384E+00-0.6555E-02 0.6235E+00-0.1983E-03 0.3789E-04 0.4325E-04
30.00L 0.00-0.4963E+00-0.2249E+00-0.2221E+00-0.6554E-02 0.6235E+00-0.4854E-03 0.3789E-04 0.4325E-04
30.00 155.00-0.6346E-01-0.1931E+00-0.5279E+00-0.2174E+00 0.5724E+00 0.9444E-04 0.6949E-05-0.2190E-03
30.00L 155.00-0.6346E-01-0.8978E-01-0.2070E+00-0.2174E+00 0.5724E+00 0.5772E-04 0.6949E-05-0.2190E-03
80.00 0.00-0.3117E+00 0.3144E+00 0.2496E+00-0.1603E-01 0.5938E+00-0.7273E-03 0.4802E-03 0.3553E-03
80.00L 0.00-0.3117E+00-0.2935E-01-0.4795E-01-0.1603E-01 0.5938E+00-0.1416E-02 0.4802E-03 0.3552E-03
80.00 155.00-0.1598E+00 0.1564E+00-0.1981E+00-0.1401E+00 0.5678E+00-0.2074E-03 0.4024E-03-0.2813E-03
80.00L 155.00-0.1598E+00-0.1643E-01-0.1182E+00-0.1401E+00 0.5678E+00-0.5606E-03 0.4024E-03-0.2813E-03
625.00 0.00-0.2094E-01 0.3400E-01 0.2960E-01-0.3492E-02 0.3367E+00-0.2149E-03 0.1541E-03 0.1245E-03
625.00L 0.00-0.2066E-01 0.2089E-02 0.7262E-03-0.3492E-02 0.3367E+00-0.3675E-03 0.1539E-03 0.1227E-03
625.00 155.00-0.2218E-01 0.3629E-01 0.3327E-01-0.4682E-02 0.3457E+00-0.2315E-03 0.1612E-03 0.1410E-03
625.00L 155.00-0.2219E-01 0.2185E-02 0.1301E-02-0.4681E-02 0.3457E+00-0.3975E-03 0.1612E-03 0.1410E-03

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