Roads and Transportation Engineering II CIVL 4330

Course description:

The course covers pavement types and definitions, soil classification for highway purposes, bituminous material types and tests, uses of asphalt in highways, design of bituminous mixtures by Marshall Procedure, analysis of rigid and flexible highway pavement stresses (one layer system), Pavement layers, calculations of equivalent single axle load, design of rigid and flexible highway pavement by AASHTO procedure.

Course Aims:

The main goals of this course are to explore the following:

Pavement structure and materials.
Concepts of road pavement design and properties of materials.
Principles of geometric design, both vertical and horizontal.
Examples of how studied principles and application come together in a design.

Course outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

Select the appropriate materials for use in different road layers.
Perform road pavement analysis and design.
Apply the principles of geometric design in the design of intersections.
Apply the code of practice in the design of flexible road pavements.
Design the geometric curves of a road pavement.
Perform full road pavement design.