Bahir Dar Institute of Technology

Faculty of Civil and Water Resource Engineering

Road and Transport Engineering

CENG 6211: Pavement Materials October 2021

Objectives
The objectives of the course are to deliver the basic understand of characteristics and engineering properties of
different pavement materials and equip students with fundamentals of material modeling approaches and their
applications for pavements.

Table of Contents
6.2. Objective and Elements of Mix Design
1. Introduction
6.3. Aggregates for Asphalt Mix
2. Sub grade Soil Investigation and Characterization 6.4. Marshall and Hveem Mix Design Methods
2.1. Introduction 6.5. Super pave Mix Design Method
2.2. Soil Investigation 6.6. Hot Mix Asphalt Operation and Compaction
2.3. Problematic soils
7. Mechanical Tests of Asphalt Mixtures
2.4. Granular/Non-Cohesive and Cohesive Soils
7.1. Introduction
2.5. Effect of Compaction on the Structure of a Soil
7.2. Resilient Modulus by Repeated Load
3. Soil Stabilization 7.3. Dynamic Complex Modulus
3.1. Introduction 7.4. Flexural Test and Indirect Tension
3.2. Inventory of Natural Pavement Materials in the 7.5. Creep and Permanent Deformation
(Sub) Tropics 7.6. Moisture Susceptibility
3.3. Mechanical Stabilization
8. Green and Geosynthetic Materials
3.4. Lime Stabilization
8.1. Introduction
3.5. Cement Stabilization
8.2. Green Pavement Materials and Sustainability
3.6. Bitumen Stabilization
8.3. Geosynthetics in Road and Pavements
3.7. Other Treatment Methods
8.4. Application of Geosynthetics in Pavement
4. Mechanical Properties of Granular Pavement Design
Materials
9. Concepts of Material Modeling
4.1. Introduction
9.1. Introduction
4.2. Principles of the Mechanical Behaviour of
9.2. Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
Unbound Granular Materials
9.3. Material Models for Soils and Rocks
4.3. Measuring the Mechanical Behavior of UGMs
9.4. Future of Asphalt Concrete Modeling
4.4. Factors Influencing the Mechanical
Characteristics of UGMs
5. Rheology of Bitumen and Characterization
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Bitumen Constitution and Structure
5.3. Physical Properties of Bitumen Evaluations (Tentative)
5.4. Rheological Properties and Pavement Mid Term Exam 15 %
Performance Assignment/Seminar 20 %
5.5. Super pave Binder Tests and Specification Laboratory 15 %
5.6. Development of Master Curve Final Exam 50 %
5.7. Polymer modified and Special bitumen’s
6. Bituminous Mixture Design and Characterization
6.1. Introduction

References
Freddy L. Roberts, Prithvi S. Kandhal, E. Ray Brown, Dah-Yinn Lee & Thomas W. Kennedy; Hot Mix Asphalt
Materials, Mixture, Design and Construction
John Read, David Whiteoak; The Shell Bitumen Handbook
Harold N. Atkins; Highway Materials, Soils and Concretes
Burt G. Look; Handbook of Geo - technical Investigation and Design Tables
SHRP; Binder Characterization and Evaluation, Volume 1 - 4
A.A.A. Molenaar; Road Materials Part I: Cohesive and Non-Cohesive Soils and Unbound Granular Materials for
Bases and Subbases in Roads (Lecture Note Delft University of Technology)

CENG 6211: Pavement Materials Instructor: Berhanu Abesha (Dr.-Ing.)