Course Details

Pavement Diagnostics and Management (DST)

Academic Year 2025/26

NMB009 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Dr.techn. Ing. Michal Varaus

Institute

Institute of Road Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295879

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.