Subjects › Transportation
Pavement Design
Flexible and rigid pavements and how they are sized.
Topics by level
Basics
School, diploma and first-year level: the ideas in plain words.
Intermediate
Degree and exam core (GATE, ESE level).
Advanced and Design
Professional design practice.
- Mechanistic-empirical design planned
- Pavement evaluation planned
Research
Frontier topics for researchers and postgraduates.
- Perpetual pavements planned
Videos
Long video
Why concrete roads have lines every 4.5 metres
The long version: joint spacing, dowels and tie bars.
Codes and standards
| Country | Designation | Scope (our words) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | IRC:37 | Guidelines for the design of flexible pavements. | current |
| India | IRC:58 | Guidelines for the design of plain jointed rigid pavements for highways. | current |
| India | IS 15462 | Polymer and rubber modified bitumen. | current |
| India | IS 73 | Paving bitumen: viscosity-graded (VG) specification. | current |
| USA | AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures (1993) | Empirical pavement design method based on road test data. | current |
Listed in a fixed country order; no standard is ranked above another. Scopes are our summaries. Buy the standards from the issuing body for exact text.
References and further reading
Standard texts, listed in no order of merit. We do not copy text, figures, tables or solved problems from any book; our explanations and examples are original.
- E. J. Yoder, M. W. Witczak, Principles of Pavement Design, Wiley, 2nd edition.
- Y. H. Huang, Pavement Analysis and Design, Pearson, 2nd edition.