This course is designed for graduate students who have had basic courses in highway and transportation engineering and transportation pavements and materials. The objective of the course is to provide the student with an understanding of the basic concepts and approaches used in selecting pavement types, configurations, and thicknesses. Statics, mechanics of materials, dynamics, and structural analysis. Basic understanding of concrete and asphalt mix design processes and behavior. Basic highway engineering and traffic theory.
Text includes disk that contains structural analysis software.
Students are required to become familiar with the software and to use it in completing a major design project. The major design project requires preparation of a written engineering design report that presents the design recommendation and documents the design process. The reliability concept as used in pavement design is studied in this course. Life cycle cost as applied to pavement type selection is discussed.