SE0155 : Advanced Graded Roads and Pads Design

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. The course will describe the principles behind modern pavement designs, asphalt technology, hot mix design, differentiate the construction, design life performance, failure criteria, maintenance and rehabilitation of rigid and flexible pavements. Participants will be able to prepare site investigation reports, collect traffic, climatic and geological data necessary for pavement design as well as prepare and test subgrade-capping layers, selecting materials and designing asphalt mixtures to meet climate and traffic conditions of road pavement projects.

The participants of this course will be able to describe the specifications and structural properties of unbound subases and bases, identify properties of cement-treated subgrades, subbases and bases and the properties of asphalt bases and surfacing and recognize pavement quality concrete and
explain flexible pavement distresses and maintenance. Further, the course will discuss the approaches to pavement design and perform road tests as per AASHO and WASHO standards and the participants will be able to measure pavement deflection and the life of asphaltic pavements; analyze structural and analytical design procedures for flexible and concrete pavements and describe heavy loaded industrial pavement design including the skid resistance and its measurement.