Course Name: CE5590 : Pavement Management System

Description: Components of pavement management systems, pavement maintenance measures, planning investment, research management? Pavement performance prediction? Concepts, modelling techniques, structural condition deterioration models, mechanistic and empirical models, Highway Development and Management tools, Comparison of different deterioration models. Functional condition deterioration models, unevenness prediction models and other models, comparison. Modelling in rehabilitation budget planning, case studies? ranking and optimisation methodologies? Recent developments, sample size selection, economic optimisation of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation. Design alternatives and selection? Design objectives and constraints, basic structural response models, physical design inputs, alternate pavement design strategies and economic evaluation, Reliability concepts in pavement engineering, life cycle costing, analysis of alternate pavement strategies based distress and performance, case studies? Road asset management,

Slot: C

RoomNo: BSB 237

Instructor: Veeraragavan A

Period: JUL-NOV 2013

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