Examples in IRC 37 - 2018

Design of Bituminous Pavement

with Granular Base and Sub-base
Design a bituminous pavement with granular base and
sub-base layers using the following input data
• 4-lane divided carriageway; A= 5000 cvpd (two-way);
r = 6.0 %; Design life period = 20 yrs; VDF = 5.2 (same
for both directions); Directional distribution of traffic
= 50/50%; Effective subgrade CBR = 7 %
• Marshall mix design carried out on the bituminous
mix to be used in the bottom bituminous layer
(DBM) for an air void content of 3 % resulted in an
effective bitumen content (by volume) of 11.5 %
 Design of Bituminous Pavement
with Granular Base and Sub-base
2500×365×((1+0.06)20 −1)
• N= × 0.75 × 5.2 = 131 msa
0.06
• Select a trial section with 40 mm thick surface layer, 70 mm
thick DBM-II, 80 mm thick bottom rich DBM-I); 250 mm thick
granular base and 230 mm thick granular sub-base (GSB).
Total thickness of granular layer = 480 mm
• Esubgrade = 17.6(7.0)0.64 = 62 MPa (<100 MPa)
• Egranular = 62 x 0.2 x (480)0.45 = 200 Mpa
• For 90 % reliability (N =131 msa > 20 msa); allowable vertical
compressive strain on subgrade = 0.000301 (0.301 X 10-03);
Allowable horizontal tensile strain at the bottom of
bituminous layer (for N=131 msa, Va = 3 %, Vbe = 11.5 %, E
asphalt of 3000 MPa for bottom rich bottom DBM layer =
0.000150 (0.150 X 10-03)
 Design of Bituminous Pavement
with Granular Base and Sub-base
• Analyse the pavement using IITPAVE with the following inputs
(elastic moduli: 3000 MPa, 200 MPa, 62 MPa, Poisson’s ratio
values of 0.35 for all the three layers, layer thicknesses of 190
mm and 480 mm).
• Computed Horizontal tensile strain = 0.000146 < 0.000150.
Hence OK
• Computed vertical compressive strain = 0.000243 < allowable
strain of 0.000301. Hence OK