Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Subgrade
Subgrade material conforming to the requirements established by the MORD specification for
Rural Roads (Ref 14) shall be provided. The materials used for subgrade construction should
have a dry unit weight of not less than 16.5 KN/m 3.
2.3 Pavement Design for Main Carriageway
Design Inputs
The parameters considered for the design of flexible pavements are mentioned under:
Design Traffic: 1 MSA
Design CBR: 8 %.
As per figure-4 (Pavement Design Catalogues for Gravel/Granular Bases and Sub-Bases) of
IRC 72:2015, the pavement composition for Main Carriageway is below:
Open Graded Premix Carpet (OGPC): 20 mm.
Bituminous Macadam (BM): 75 mm.
Wet Mix Macadam (WMM): 150 mm.
Granular Sub-base (GSB): 150 mm.
2.4 Existing Surface
On existing surface, BT layer has been Scarified and 120mm thick WMM layer has been laid as
profile correction course on existing surface