Rural Road Pavement Performance Evaluation and Design
In this work a rural road is constructed and considered under the project of PMGSY from Utterbani to Marikhui, Purmandal Taluka ,Samba District, Jammu and Kashmir State, India for Pavement Performance Studies. The objective of the work was to conduct Pavement Performance Studies and on this road which includes Structural and Functional Evaluations and design of pavement.. Road inventory survey included the findings relating to properties of bitumen and soil, rainfall, temperature, properties of shoulder material, sub base, base and type of adjoining land etc. In periodic survey surface drainage rating, roughness value, sub grade moisture content has been investigated. In pavement condition survey, rut depth, longitudinal depression, cracking of bituminous layer, percentage of raveling, severity of potholes and area of patching has been measured. In the traffic survey different types of vehicles including commercial vehicles have been recorded for 24 hours X 3 days for the computation of MSA. In the axle load surveys, type of vehicle, number of axles and load on each axle will be recorded to determine the vehicle damage factor (VDF). In the non destructive structural evaluation, deflection studies would be done. The distresses observed on this road are a few percentages of raveling, road cutting, patching, potholes, and roughness. Comparison has been done considering pavement condition index (PCI). This paper attempts to address the issues relating to the design of such village road through which all round development of the district can be achieved.
Published by: Vivek Poonia, Mohit R. Raina, Naveen Kumar, Hitanshu Bhagat, Pravin J. Gorde, Yash Wanjari
Author: Vivek Poonia
Paper ID: V3I3-1493
Paper Status: published
Published: June 7, 2017
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