Course Details

Pavement Diagnostics and Management (DST)

Academic Year 2024/25

CM051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

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

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

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