The document outlines guidelines for designing plain jointed rigid pavements for highways, including structural details, traffic estimation, and fatigue analysis. It provides specific parameters such as slab thickness, joint spacing, and traffic load data to ensure safety and durability over a design period of 30 years. The analysis indicates that the design is unsafe due to the cumulative fatigue damage exceeding acceptable limits.
The document outlines guidelines for designing plain jointed rigid pavements for highways, including structural details, traffic estimation, and fatigue analysis. It provides specific parameters such as slab thickness, joint spacing, and traffic load data to ensure safety and durability over a design period of 30 years. The analysis indicates that the design is unsafe due to the cumulative fatigue damage exceeding acceptable limits.
The document outlines guidelines for designing plain jointed rigid pavements for highways, including structural details, traffic estimation, and fatigue analysis. It provides specific parameters such as slab thickness, joint spacing, and traffic load data to ensure safety and durability over a design period of 30 years. The analysis indicates that the design is unsafe due to the cumulative fatigue damage exceeding acceptable limits.
The document outlines guidelines for designing plain jointed rigid pavements for highways, including structural details, traffic estimation, and fatigue analysis. It provides specific parameters such as slab thickness, joint spacing, and traffic load data to ensure safety and durability over a design period of 30 years. The analysis indicates that the design is unsafe due to the cumulative fatigue damage exceeding acceptable limits.
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IRC:58-2015 Guidelines for Design of Plain Jointed Rigid Pavements for Highw
Example of Design of Slab Thickness for Pavement
(with and without doweled transverse joints. Beta value will be 0.66 for doweled joint and 0.90 for without dowels case) Type of pavement considered Pavement Structural Details
Carriageway 4-lane Modulus of subgrade reaction of subgrade, MPa/m
Transverse joint spacing (m) 4.5 Effective modulus of subgrade reaction of foundation, MPa/m
Lane width (m) 3.5 Unit weight of Concrete, kN/m 3
Transverse Joints have dowel bars? (yes/no) yes 28-day Flexural strength of cement concrete, MPa Design Traffic Estimation Max. day-time Temperature Differential in slab, C (for bottom-up 0
cracking) Design Period (years) 30 Night-time Temperature Differential in slab, C (for top- down 0
cracking) = day-time diff/2 + 5
Total Two-way Commercial Traffic (cvpd) in the year of completion 6000 Trial Thickness of Concrete Slab, m of construction Av. Annual rate of growth of commercial traffic 0.075 Load Transfer Efficiency Factor for TDC analysis, Beta = (expressed as decimal) 0.66 for dowel Joints, 0.90 for joints without dowels Cumulative No of Commercial vehicles during design period (two- 226444692 Elastic Modulus of Concrete, Ec (MPa) way), A Average No of axles per commercial vehicle, B 2.35 Poisson's Ratio of Concrete, Mu Cumulative No of Commercial Axles during design period (two- 532145025 Radius of relative stiffness, m way), C = A*B Proportion of traffic in predominant direction (For 2-lane 2-way 0.50 Design Axle Load Repetitions for Fatigue Analysis highways use a value of 1.0), D Lateral Placement factor (0.25 for 2-lane 2-way. For multilane 0.125 For Bottom-up Cracking Analysis highways the value is 0.25 X C), E
Factor for selection of traffic for BUC analysis (for six- hour period 0.2 Front single (steering) Axles = H * K1 during day), F
Factor for selection of traffic for TDC analysis (for six- hour period 0.3 Rear single Axles = H * K2 during day), G Design axle repetitions for BUC analysis (for 6 hour day time 13303626 Tandem Axles = H * K3 traffic), H = B*E*F Proportion of vehicles with spacing between front and the first rear 0.55 Tridem Axles = H * K4 axle less than the spacing of transverse joints, I
Design axle repetitions for TDC analysis (for 6-hour night time 10975491 For Top-Down Cracking Analysis traffic), J = B*E*G*I Proportion of Front single (steering) Axles, K1 0.450 Front single (steering) Axles = J * K1 Proportion of Rear single Axles,K2 0.150 Rear single Axles = J * K2 Proportion of tandem Axles, K3 0.250 Tandem Axles = J * K3 Proportion of Tridem Axles, K4 = (1-K1-K2-K3) 0.150 Tridem Axles = J * K4
Axle Load Spectrum Data
Bottom-up Cracking Fa Positive Temperature D
Rear Single Axle Rear Tandem Axle Rear Tridem Axle Rear Single Axles
Load Mid-Point of Frequency (%) Load Group Mid-Point of Frequency Load Mid-Point of Frequency Expected Flex Group Load Group (kN) Load Group (%) Group Load Group (%) Repetitions Stress (kN) (kN) (kN) (kN) (kN) (ni) MPa 185-195 190 18.15 380 - 400 390 14.5 530-560 545 5.23 362191 2.503
Effective k-value from Tables 2 and 3 (MPa/m) = 72.0 Elastic Modulus of Pavement Concrete ( For k of 72.0 MPa/m and for Elastic Modulus of DLC (MPa), E2 0.3 Doweled Joint and Tied Concrete Shoulders, Slab Thickness (m) = Poisson's Ratio of Paving Concrete, 1
igue Damage Analysis
Top-Down Cracking Fatigue Analysis for Night-time (6 hour) traffic and Negative Temperature Differen
Rear Single Axles Rear Tandem Axles Rear Tridem Axles
(Stess computed for 50% of axle load) (Stress computed for 33% of axle load) Expected Flex Stress Allowable Fatigue Expected Flex Stress Allowable Fatigue Expected Flex Stress Ratio Repetitions Stress Ratio (SR) Repetitions (Ni) Damage Repetitions (ni) Stress Ratio (SR) Repetitions Damage Repetitions Stress (SR) (ni) MPa (ni/Ni) MPa (Ni) (ni/Ni) (ni) MPa 298808 2.399 0.485 1768731 0.169 397862 2.42686 0.490 1267085 0.314 86103 2.3529 0.475
is, m (See Fig.6) 0.16 which is more than the Flexural Stiffness of the Design Slab = ign Slab 69.05 Hence, Provide a Slab of thickness (m) 0.235 over DLC of thickness (m) ial Slab Provided 46.65 Slab thickness (h1) over DLC layer may be obtained by iteratively changing h1 and matching the design stiffness 23.28 with the combined stiffness provided Pavements for Highways
dowels case)
50.3
150
150
on, MPa/m 285
24 4.5 (for bottom-up 16.8
top- down 13.4
0.28
eta = 0.66 s 30000
0.15 0.66621
tigue Analysis
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Fat ottom-up Cracking Fatigue Analysis for Day-time (6 hour) traffic and ositive Temperature Differential
Fat Dam from Sing. Axles = 0.976 3325906 Fat Dam from Tand Axles = 0.000
ttom-up Fatigue Damage due to single and tandem 0.976 + 0.000 = 0.976 ds = Sum of CFD for BUC & TDC= 1.730
ab thickness (m) over DLC, h1 0.235 Poisson's Ratio of D
DLC thickness (m), h2 0.15 Depth to Neutral ax
Modulus of Pavement Concrete (MPa), E1 30000 Flex Stiffness of des Modulus of DLC (MPa), E2 13600 Flex Stiffness of Part 's Ratio of Paving Concrete, 1 0.15 Flex Stiffness of DLC
