Course detail

Pavement Diagnostics and Management (DST)

FAST-CM051Acad. year: 2018/2019

The function of roads, road user requirements and their transition to structural reliability requirements and characteristics of serviceability. External and internal sources of failure mechanisms, defining various failure mechanisms, their development and characteristics. Diagnostics of various failures of asphalt, cement concrete and block pavements with a design of maintenance and repair. Systems for the management of road networks.
In the seminars, students learn the field and laboratory methods used to determine the characteristics of serviceability, measurement and evaluation of the bearing capacity with the design of maintenance and repairs. The individual work of failure evaluation by visual inspection, design of pavement structure, evaluation of the measurement of the bearing capacity using falling weight deflectometer and design of maintenance and repair will be elaborated.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus

Department

Institute of Road Structures (PKO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The aim is to gain knowledge about disruption of road construction, diagnostics and design of maintenance, repair and recycling of road construction. In addition, basic knowledge about the pavement management systems on pavements of the Czech Republic is gained.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of subjects: Highways I, II, 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. Introduction, importance of diagnostics, road user requirements and serviceability
2. Mechanisms of asphalt pavement failures
3. Mechanisms of cement concrete pavements and block pavings failures
4. Measurement of bearing capacity (FWD, CBR, static load test, light weight falling deflectometer)
5. Pavement management systems
6. Design of repairing of asphalt pavement layers
7. Design of repairing of cement concrete pavement layers and block pavings
8. Special problems of cement concrete courses, dowels, armatures, cement quality
9. Diagnostics of traffic flow
10. Traffic noise, measurement, evaluation and methods of reducing noise
11. Evaluation of skid resistance of pavements
12. Pavements recycling
13. Summary of pavement diagnostics issue

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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch K , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch K , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus

Syllabus

1. Introduction, importance of diagnostics, road user requirements and serviceability
2. Mechanisms of asphalt pavement failures
3. Mechanisms of cement concrete pavements and block pavings failures
4. Measurement of bearing capacity (FWD, CBR, static load test, light weight falling deflectometer)
5. Pavement management systems
6. Design of repairing of asphalt pavement layers
7. Design of repairing of cement concrete pavement layers and block pavings
8. Special problems of cement concrete courses, dowels, armatures, cement quality
9. Diagnostics of traffic flow
10. Traffic noise, measurement, evaluation and methods of reducing noise
11. Evaluation of skid resistance of pavements
12. Pavements recycling
13. Summary of pavement diagnostics issue

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus

Syllabus

1. Pavement design programme LAYEPS, catalogue of pavements
2. Excursion in road laboratory, evaluation of specimens taken from pavements
3. Presentation of measurements (CBR, static load test, light weight falling deflectometer)
4. Calculation of pavement stress, strain and deflection, backcalculation of layer stiffness moduli
5. Presentation of measurement using FWD device
6. Drilling of cores, Leutner test, layers thickness, composition of mixtures
7. Student's presentation of outcomes of the individual exercises, discussion
8. Student's presentation of outcomes of the individual exercises, discussion
9. Diagnostics of traffic flow
10. Visual inspection, design and evaluation
11. Measurement of pavement surface microtexture, macrotexture, skid resistance, noise and roughness
12. Student's presentation of outcomes of the individual exercises, discussion
13. Conclusion, credit