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