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The document provides specifications for designing a two-way rural road, including expected traffic loading over 20 years, subgrade soil properties, and design criteria to use. It also provides details of an existing flexible pavement needing an overlay design to carry increased traffic, mechanical properties and loading of a pavement element to calculate material properties, and formulas to estimate deflections and properties of a two-layer pavement under a wheel load. Finally, it includes aggregate gradation data to estimate the bitumen content needed to meet specifications for voids and density in the mix.

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Ece 2412 CBD Tutorial

The document provides specifications for designing a two-way rural road, including expected traffic loading over 20 years, subgrade soil properties, and design criteria to use. It also provides details of an existing flexible pavement needing an overlay design to carry increased traffic, mechanical properties and loading of a pavement element to calculate material properties, and formulas to estimate deflections and properties of a two-layer pavement under a wheel load. Finally, it includes aggregate gradation data to estimate the bitumen content needed to meet specifications for voids and density in the mix.

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TUTORIALS JAN-APRIL 2016

 A two way rural road passing through varying terrain with subgrade soil of CBR of 10 is
proposed to be designed to bitumen standard. Axel load surveys indicate that expected
traffic loading on opening the road in both directions with a 60/40 percent directional
distribution be as in the table below:

Axle load (Tonnes) 6.35 7.26 8.16 9.07 9.98 10.89 11.79 12.70
No. Of axles expected in 340 316 246 197 108 76 32 20
both directions per day

Historical traffic data indicate an annual traffic growth rate of 5%. Determine the pavement
structure for this road section for a design period of 20 years using RN29 design criteria

 A flexible pavement of 100mm Asphatic Concrete (AC) surfacing, 250mm GCS Road
base, 200mm NGR subbase, subgrade of 6%, has carried 2MSA since it was
constructed. Design a overlay for the section of this road having a characteristic
deflection of 45x10-2mm to carry 10MSA in future with a 0.90probability of achieving
life.
 A pavement element along Thika road of 100x150x200 mm was subjected to an equal
all round pressure of 120kn/m2 and axial load of 2.5KN in the X-direction. The changes
in length are 0.92mm in X-direction, 0.27mm in the Y-direction and 0.18mm in the Z-
direction. Calculate the

i. Elastic theory ratio, E


ii. Poisson’s ratio, 
iii. Bulk Modulus, K

 A two layer pavement on C91 road has a top layer of depth 300mm. A wheel load of
45KN is applied through a circular area of radius of 150mm on this pavement. Estimate
the following under the centre of the loaded wheel. (E1= 100mN/m2 and E2= 20mN/m2)

i. surface deflection,  s
ii. interface deflection,  i
iii. Deflection,  p

 The table below shows the grading of aggregates used in making a dense bituminous
mix. The specific gravity of coarse and fine aggregates are 2.6 and 2.7 respectively
while that of bitumen is 1.04

Sieve size 25mm 20mm 13mm 6mm No. 7 No.52 No.100 No.200
% Passing 100 98 78 61 44 26 16 0

Estimate the bitumen content to produce a mix that meets the following specifications
among others: Voids in mix = 3 to 5%, voids filled with bitumen = 75 to 85% and
compacted density of mixed aggregates = 2.20 (12 Marks)

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