RESEARCH LAB. PUNJAB, PWD.B&R BR.

PATIALA
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Name of Road:- IGC BATHINDA .

Ref:- Sub Divisional Engineer-1, PSIEC Bathinda’s Letter No. PSIEC/SDE-1/281

Dated. 24.09.2019.

OVERLAY DESIGN BASED ON FALLING WEIGHT DEFLECTOMETER

The Roads have been divided into 2 homogenous sections: -

i)HOMOGENOUS SECTIONS 1:-

R20(E-21 TO E-43),
R-15(D-1 TO D-7),
R-16(D-23 TO C-18),
R-17(E-44 to E-53),
R-18(E-11 TO E-20) n

ii)HOMOGENOUS SECTIONS 2 :-

R1(RD 0-3710),
R-11(C-26 TO D-28),
R-2/R-3/R-4(D1-D14),
R-5/R-6/R-7/R-8(D-7 to D-23),
R-14(C-27 to C-33)

A) Design Stipulations (as per field input attached):-

i) Existing Bituminous Crust Thickness : 40mm

ii) Existing Non-Bituminous Crust Thickness : 230mm

iii) Design traffic on the Road :5.5 MSA(Homogenous Section 1)

5.0 MSA(Homogenous Section 2)

Procedure for Overlay Design based on IRC:115-2014.

i) Deflection Measured at different locations/sections of the project road are normalized for
40 kN standard load.

ii) Layer Moduli are back calculated using KGPBACK program. The pavement has been
modeled as three-layer system with bituminous layer, granular layer and subgrade as
per IRC 37-2018.

iii) Bituminous Layer moduli are corrected for standard pavement temperature of 35 oC.

iv) Granular layer and subgrade moduli are corrected for monsoon season.

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 v) For ( Homogenous Sections 1) stretch, selecting 15th percentile moduli for
purpose of design, the design moduli of in-service layers come as under: -

Bituminous layer : 1375 MPa

Granular layer : 237 MPa
Subgrade layer : 84 MPa
For ( Homogenous Sections 2) stretch, selecting 15th percentile moduli for purpose of
design, the design moduli of in-service layers come as under: -

Bituminous layer : 1267 MPa

Granular layer : 157 MPa
Subgrade layer : 84 MPa
vi) The existing pavement is analyzed as a three layer system to calculate the remaining
fatigue and rutting life of the pavement. For this, maximum tensile strain at the
bottom of the existing bituminous layer (t) and maximum compressive strain at top of
subgrade (c) has been computed using the thicknesses and moduli of various layers
as inputs in IIT PAVE. The following strain values are obtained: -

For ( Homogenous Section 1) stretch

Tensile Strain at the bottom of Bituminous Layer : 373 micro strain
Vertical Strain on top of Subgrade : 952 micro strain
(See attached Appendix-1 for reference)

For ( Homogenous Section 2) stretch

Tensile Strain at the bottom of Bituminous Layer : 562 micro strain
Vertical Strain on top of Subgrade : 1092 micro strain
(See attached Appendix-1 for reference)
vii) Based on below equations (IRC 115:2014), remaining fatigue life and rutting life
is evaluated as under : -

Nf=1.6064xCx(1/t) ^3.89 x(1/E) ^0.854/10000(80% reliability) ----------(i)

Where Nf=fatigue life in standard axle load repetitions

t=maximum tensile strain at bottom of bituminous layer
C=10m
m=4.84*((Vbe/(Vbe+Va))-0.69)
Vbe=%ge effective bitumen(11.5% assumed)
Va=%ge voids in mix(4.0% assumed)
E=Resilient modulus of bituminous mix, MPa

Nr=4.1656*(1/c) ^4.5337/10^8 (90%reliability) ------------(ii)

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 Where Nr=rutting life in standard axle load repetitions
c=maximum compressive strain at top of subgrade
From above,
For ( Homogenous Section 1)
Remaining Fatigue Life= 13.03 MSA
Remaining Rutting Life= 2.08 MSA,
The Existing Crust is inadequate as Design Traffic Input from Field= 5.5 MSA

For ( Homogenous Section 2)

Remaining Fatigue Life= 2.82 MSA
Remaining Rutting Life= 1.12 MSA,

The Existing Crust is inadequate as Design Traffic Input from Field= 5.0 MSA

OVERLAY RECOMMENDATION :-

The combination of existing pavement and overlay is analyzed as a four layer

system to ensure that fatigue and rutting criteria are satisfied for the assumed design traffic.
Trial overlay thicknesses are selected and maximum tensile strain at the bottom of the existing
bituminous layer (t) and maximum compressive strain at top of subgrade (c) has been
computed using the thicknesses and moduli of various layers as inputs. Based on below
equations (IRC 115:2014), Remaining fatigue life and remaining rutting life is evaluated using
above equation (i) and (ii): -

For ( Homogenous Section 1)

After conducting a number of trials, Minimum Overlay thickness (BM) of 60mm
(assuming Elastic moduli of Overlay thickness as 700MPa as per IRC 37:2018) with
VG-30 binder (table 9.1 of IRC 37:2018) provides: -
Remaining fatigue life = 27.04 MSA and
Remaining rutting life = 5.84 MSA (using IIT PAVE and above equations),
which satisfies design traffic of 5.5 MSA.

For ( Homogenous Section 2)

After conducting a number of trials, Minimum Overlay thickness (BM) of 75mm
(assuming Elastic moduli of Overlay thickness as 700MPa as per IRC 37:2018) with

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VG-30 binder (table 9.1 of IRC 37:2018) provides: -
Remaining fatigue life = 12.67 MSA and
Remaining rutting life = 5.24 MSA (using IIT PAVE and above equations),
which satisfies design traffic of 5.0 MSA.

NOTE:-
1. The above overlay thickness of 75/60mm (BM) thickness is based on design
moduli of in-service layers calculated and the design traffic input from the
field office. The Overlay thickness can be re-evaluated for different provisions
using IIT PAVE based on the design moduli of in-service layers given above in
point No.V.

2. Necessary patch work wherever required may be taken.

Test Conducted by Report Prepared by Approved by

Asstt. Engineer Sub Divisional Engineer. Deputy Director.

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