Course detail

Pavement diagnostics and management

FAST-CM51Acad. year: 2012/2013

Road and street functions, user requirements and serviceability characteristics. Outer and inner causes of failure mechanisms, definition of different mechanisms and development of characteristics. Examples of diagnostics of asphalt, Portland cement a bricks pavement with design of their maitenance and repair. Pavement management systems for road network. Each student evaluate servicebility and failure of road, bearing capacity on base of falling weight deflectometer, field and laboratory tests and prepare design of variant pavement maintenance, repair and recycling.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Kudrna, CSc.

Department

Institute of Road Structures (PKO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The knowledge of functions, requirements and failure of road and street, diagnostics and design of maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of road structures. Pavement Management system, its goal, function and using.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of subject: Design of road, Design of road structures and road construction, Urban roads and knowledge of Road laboratory tests

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Processing of individual tasks and presentation in group of students with discussion. Excursion to road laboratory with presentation of road testing device (skid resistance, surface macrotexture and microtexture, roughness, bearing capacity, traffic noise, failures atc.)

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The presence and activity of students in the group. Processing and presentation of individual and group tasks. Written and oral exam.

Course curriculum

1. Road and street functions, user´s requirements and serviceability
2. Measurements and evaluation of skid/slip resistance
3. Measurements and evaluation of pavement unevenness and other failures
4. The causes and development of different failure mechanisms
5. Catalogue of failure and visual inspection of flexible pavement
6. Design and evaluation of pavement structure with programme LAYEPS
7. Measurements and evaluation of flexible pavement bearing capacity
8. Take of road structures samples and laboratory testing
9. Design of maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of flexible pavement
10. Failure, evaluation and design of maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction of rigid pavements
11. Pavement Management Systems
12. Important examples of diagnostics and design of road structure maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling
13. Presentation of student evaluation of pavement failure and design of maintenance and overlaying

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The knowledge of requirements, function and failure of road and street, diagnostics and design of maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of road structures are the main goal.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Kudrna Jan: TP 87 Navrhování údržby a oprav netuhých vozovek. VUT FAST, 2010. 978-80-214-4089-0. [www.pjpk.cz] (CS)
Mališ Luděk: TP 82 Katalog poruch netuhých vozovek. PavEx Consulting, s.r.o., 2010. [www.pjpk.cz] (CS)

Recommended reading

Ing. Josef Stryk, Ph.D.: TP 62 Katalog poruch vozovek s cementobetonovým krytem. CDV, v.v.i., 2010. [www.pjpk.cz] (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch K , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jan Kudrna, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Road and street functions, user´s requirements and serviceability. Design and evaluation of pavement structure
2. Measurements and evaluation of skid/slip resistance
3. Measurements and evaluation of pavement roughness and noise
4. Measurements and evaluation of flexible pavement bearing capacity
5. The causes and development of different failure mechanisms
6. Catalogue of failure and visual inspection of flexible pavement
7. Pavement on bridge structures and their failures
8. Take of road structures samples and laboratory testing
9. Design of maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of flexible pavement
10. Failure, evaluation and design of maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction of Portland-cement pavements
11. Pavement Management Systems
12. Important examples of diagnostics and design of road structure maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling
13. Important examples of diagnostics and design of road structure maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jan Kudrna, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Pavement design programme LAYEPS, economic optimizing of pavement structure
2. Calculation of pavement stress, strain and deflection, backcalculation of layer stiffness moduli
3. Measurement of pavement surface microtexture, macrotexture, skid resistance. noise and roughness
4. FWD measurement and evaluation, individial task of measurements for backcalculation of deflection bowle
5. Student presentation of optimized pavement structures
6. Student presentation of optimized pavement structures and evaluation of pavement bearing capacity
7. Student presentation of evaluation of pavement bearing capacity, individual task of evaluation of bridge failures
8. Excursion in road laboratory, evaluation of specimens taken from pavement, individual task design of maintenance, repair and recycling on tha base of real diagnostics
9. Student presentation of evaluation of bridge failures, discussion
10. Student presentation of evaluation bridge failures and evaluation of diagnostics, discussion
11. Student presentation of evaluation of diagnostics, discussion
12. Student presentation of evaluation of diagnostics, discussion
13. Conclusion