Flexible Pavement Design - Base Data

Name of work strengthening in km 90/0-96/0 of NH 49 Extn(New NH 85)

Carriageway width Dual two lane (divided carriageway)

Classification of road SH

Design life 20

Initial traffic (A) (in both 6137

direction) (CVD)
Traffic growth rate 5

Year of traffic census 2017

Terrain Plain

Current year 2021

Construction period 1
CBR Values of subgrade used for Yes
calculcation of 90th Percentile 10,10,11,12
CBR Calcuation

90th Percentile CBR of sub grade 10.17

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 VG40

course and binder course
Initial Traffic after completion of =(6137/2)x(1+5%)^(4+1)x0.5
construction
Single Side Traffic 3916 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 5
design traffic
Lane Distribution Factor 0.75

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

For 20 Years =365x((1+0.05)^20-1)x3916x0.75x5/0.05/1000000

177.23 MSa

For 5 Years =365x((1+0.05)^5-1)x3916x0.75x5/0.05/1000000/0.60

49.36 MSa

% volume of air voids (Va) to be 3.5

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

Stage construction can be

adopted
Rate of DBM used for cost
analysis
Note:

Stage construction can be adopted

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 80th and 90th percentile CBR values
Entered CBR Values
10,10,11,12

120

100

8090 0 10.16547777 0
90 10.16547777 10.16547777 90
Percentile ---->

6080 0 10.34362601 0
80 10.34362601 10.34362601 80
40
y = 12.5x2 - 312.5x + 1975
20

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 1

CBR ---- >

Equation of the CBR graph is y = 12.5x2 - 312.5x + 1975

CBR values for 90 80

10.17 10.34

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 Design of flexible pavement - strain check
stregthening in km 70/0-74/0 & 90/0-96/0 of NH 49 Extn(New NH 85)

Design CBR = 10.17

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 = 40 140 Thickness of BC & DBM
DBM = 100

WMM = 250 450 Thickness of GSB + WMM

GSB = 200
590

MSA 49.36 Bitumen layer IITPAVE to be run for 3 layer analysis

177.23 Granular layer
5 Yrs with Factor = 49.36 5 Yrs = 29.62
15 Yrs = 115.66
20 Yrs = 177.23

Resilient modulus (M)

2
M Subgrade = 10*CBR For CBR <= 5 MR Eff = 2*(1- )pa/
= 17.6*(CBR) 0.64
For CBR > 5  0.35 Poisson's ration
MR Eff = 17.6x10.17^0.64 p 0.56 contact pressure
= 77.66
M Granular = 0.2 x E subgrade x h^0.45 a 150.8 Radius of circular
= 242.757699 contact area
M Granular = 243  surface deflection
from IITPave

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 = 3000 700 2000 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 = 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 = 3.5 Vb = 11.5
1/εt = 5595.11111
εt = 178.73E-06 (90%) Allowable Tensile strain

Horizontal Tensile Strain at the bottom of the cemented base

Not Applicable

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 = (177230000/(1.41*10^-8))^(1/4.5337)
1/εv = 3556.58309

εv = 281.17E-06 (90%) 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 179 micro Strain 180 micro Strain

Vertical compressive strain at the top of Sub grade 281 micro Strain 283 micro Strain

The section is unsafe in tension at bottom of bituminous layer

The section is unsafe in compression at top of subgrade

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 IITPAVE Result

No. of layers 3
E values (MPa) 3000.00 243.00 77.66
Mu values 0.350.350.35
thicknesses (mm) 140.00 450.00
single wheel load (N) 20000.00
tyre pressure (MPa) 0.56
Dual Wheel
Z R SigmaZ SigmaT SigmaR TaoRZ DispZ epZ epT epR
140.00 0.00-0.1211E+00 0.6899E+00 0.5500E+00-0.1629E-01 0.3563E+00-0.1850E-03 0.1799E-03 0.1170E-03
140.00L 0.00-0.1211E+00-0.4041E-02-0.1537E-01-0.1629E-01 0.3563E+00-0.4704E-03 0.1799E-03 0.1170E-03
140.00 155.00-0.1058E+00 0.5898E+00 0.2554E+00-0.5475E-01 0.3658E+00-0.1339E-03 0.1792E-03 0.2867E-04
140.00L 155.00-0.1058E+00-0.4593E-02-0.3168E-01-0.5474E-01 0.3658E+00-0.3833E-03 0.1792E-03 0.2867E-04
590.00 0.00-0.1993E-01 0.2814E-01 0.2482E-01-0.3122E-02 0.2508E+00-0.1583E-03 0.1088E-03 0.9032E-04
590.00L 0.00-0.1959E-01 0.1805E-02 0.6522E-03-0.3122E-02 0.2509E+00-0.2634E-03 0.1086E-03 0.8857E-04
590.00 155.00-0.2089E-01 0.2990E-01 0.2772E-01-0.4016E-02 0.2571E+00-0.1690E-03 0.1132E-03 0.1011E-03
590.00L 155.00-0.2089E-01 0.1902E-02 0.1205E-02-0.4015E-02 0.2571E+00-0.2831E-03 0.1132E-03 0.1011E-03

TNDB_Pave_V 5.0 6/6 Output from IITPave