13 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The stiidy entitled "Analysis of Design of a Rigid Pavement with Varying Types of Shoulders,
Subbase and Subgrade" has the following main objectives:

1) To design therigidpavement with varying subgrade strengths of CBR 2% to 10%.

2) To design the rigid pavement considering different available options in the code for
subbase materials such as Dry Lean Concrete, Granular Subbase and Cement Treated
Subbase.
3) To design therigidpavement with different thickness of Dry Lean Concrete, Grranular
Subbase and Cement Treated Subbase.
4) To design the rigid pavement with different conditions of shoulders such as tied
concrete shouldos and earthen shoulders.
5) To design therigidpavement by varying the traffic volume.
6) To compare the above designs evolved by the latest IRC guidelines given in IRC: 58-
2011 with the design approach given by the previous version of the same IRC code,
that is, IRC: 58-2002.
7) To discuss the issues related to design guidelines given in the latest code, that is, IRC:
58-2011.
8) To discuss the bmefits, if any, by adopting the varying conditions of subgrade, subbase
and shouldos in the design of arigidpavement.

1.4 SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH

The design in the study is carried out for a 4-lane divided National Highway assimied to be
located in Haryana. The design is done by taking different options of sub base such as DLC,
Granular sub base and Cement treated sub base with differoit values of CBR of subgrade
rangingfiom2% to 10% for both cona^e (tied) and earthen shouldo- conditions.

The design is valid for the design of rigid pavement of new roads. This design is for all
cal^ories of roads such as E)q)ressways, National Hi^ways, Major District Roads and for all
Stre^ Roads carrying commercial vehicles more than 450 per day. Though the given designs
are s^plicable to the given road with given values of subgrade strength, subbase and shoulder