Lesson Plan
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| Discipline: civil Engineering |
| Semester: 6th |
| Subject : Transport engineering-II |
| Lesson Plan Duration |
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Theory |
Practical |
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Lec day |
Topic |
Pract. day |
Topic |
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UNIT-I-Design of Flexible Pavements |
1 |
aggregate impact test |
| 1st |
1 |
Introduction |
2 |
los-angeles abrasion test |
| 2 |
Types of pavements. Flexible and rigid pavement |
3 |
Dorry’s abrasion test on aggregate |
| 3 |
Components of a pavement and their functions. |
4 |
Deval attrition test on aggregates |
| 4 |
Factors affecting design of pavements. |
5 |
crushing strength test on aggregate |
| 2nd |
5 |
Design of thickness of a flexible pavement by Group Index method |
6 |
penetration test on bitumen |
| 6 |
Design of thickness of a flexible pavement by Group Index method (Cont.) |
7 |
ductile test on bitumen |
| 7 |
CBR method (including latest IRC guidelines), |
8 |
viscosity test on bitumen material |
| 8 |
Triaxial method |
9 |
softening point on bitumen |
| 3rd |
9 |
Burmister’s method |
10 |
flash and fire point on bitumen |
| 10 |
test/assignment |
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Unit-II Design of Rigid Pavements |
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| 11 |
Westergaard’s theory, critical locations of loading, |
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| 4th |
12 |
Load and temperature stresses. |
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| 13 |
Critical combination of stresses. IRC guidelines for determination of thickness of a rigid pavement. |
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| 14 |
Joints: requirements, types, patterns |
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| 15 |
Spacing of expansion and contraction joints. |
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| 5th |
16 |
test/assignment |
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Unit-III-Highway Construction: Non-Bituminous Pavements |
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| 17 |
Brief introduction to earthwork machinery: shovel, hoe, clamshell, dragline, bulldozers. |
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| 18 |
Principles of field compaction of sub grade. Compacting equipments. Granular roads. |
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| 19 |
Construction steps of WBM. WMM. |
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| 20 |
Construction of cement concrete pavements, Slip-form pavers, |
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| 6th |
21 |
Basic concepts of the following: soil stabilized roads, use of geo-synthetics, |
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| 22 |
reinforced cement concrete pavements, prestress concrete pavements, |
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| 23 |
Roller compacted concrete pavements and fibre reinforced concrete pavements. |
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| 24 |
test/assignment |
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| 7th |
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Unit-IV Construction of Bituminous Pavements |
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| 25 |
Various types of bituminous constructions. Prime coat, |
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| 26 |
tack coat, seal coat and surface dressing. |
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| 27 |
Construction of BUSG, Premix carpet, |
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| 28 |
BM, DBM and AC. |
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| 8th |
29 |
Brief coverage of machinery for construction of bituminous roads: |
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| 30 |
Bitumen boiler, sprayer, pressure distributor, hot-mix plant, |
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| 31 |
Cold mix plant, tipper trucks, mechanical paver or finisher, rollers. Mastic asphalt. |
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| 9th |
32 |
Introduction to various IRC and MOST specifications. |
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| 33 |
test/assignment |
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Unit-V Highway Maintenance |
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| 34 |
Pavement failures. Maintenance operations. |
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| 35 |
Maintenance of WBM, bituminous surfaces |
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| 10th |
36 |
cement concrete pavements. |
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| 37 |
Pavement evaluation. Benkleman beam. |
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| 38 |
Introduction to various types of overlays. |
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| 39 |
test/assignment |
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Unit-VI Highway Drainage and Hill Roads |
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| 40 |
Surface drainage: types, brief design. |
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| 11th |
41 |
Types of sub-surface drainage. |
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| 42 |
Special characteristics of hill roads: geometric, hair pin bends, |
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| 43 |
Construction of hill roads, drainage of hill roads, maintenance problems of hill roads. |
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| 44 |
test/assignment |
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Unit-VII Highway Economics and Finance |
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| 12th |
45 |
Need of economic evaluation. Highway user benefits and costs. |
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| 46 |
Methods of economic evaluation: benefit cost ratio method, |
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| 47 |
Net present value method, internal rate of return method, comparison. Highway finance. |
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| 48 |
test/assignment |
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Unit-VIII-Tunnels |
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| 13th |
49 |
Sections of tunnels: advantages, limitations and suitability of each section. |
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| 50 |
Shaft. Pilot tunnel. Driving tunnel in rocks: sequence of construction operations, |
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| 51 |
full-face method, heading and bench method, |
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| 52 |
Drift method. Driving tunnels in soft ground |
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| 14th |
53 |
sequence of construction operations |
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| 54 |
Needle beam method, shield tunneling, compressed air tunneling. |
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| 55 |
test/assignment |
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| 56 |
REVISION |
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| 15th |
57 |
REVISION |
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| 58 |
REVISION |
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| 59 |
REVISION |
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