HD11CE: Transportation Engineering

                                                                                                           

 

1. Fields of Transportations Engineering: Role of transportation in society; Modes of transportation.
2. Highway Engineering: History of road development; Road types and pattern; Road alignment; Controlling factors and surveys for road alignment.
3. Geometric Design: Cross sectional elements, camber, shoulder, Sight distance, Horizontal curves; super elevation, extra widening, transition curves, setback distance, Gradient, Vertical Curves: summit and valley curves.
4. Traffic Engineering : Traffic characteristic, Volume studies, Speed study, Traffic flow chanceries, capacity, density, Traffic control devices: Signs, signals, island, intersections: at grade and grade separated intersections, rotary intersection, design of signals at intersections.
5. Pavement: Type: Structural and functional failure; design factors; flexible pavement design by CBR Method; design of rigid pavement; Westergarrd theory, load and temperature stresses, critical combination of stresses, joints, IRC method of rigid Pavement design.
6. Road construction Methods: WBM, surface dressing, bituminous carpeting, Bituminous Bound Macadam and Asphaltic Concrete, cement concrete roads, MOST specification for these roads.
7. Pavement failure, evaluation, and overlay design.

 

 

Reference:

1.      Highway Engineering by S.K Khanna and C.E.G. Justo.

2.      Transportation Engineering by L.R. Kadiyali

3.      Highway Engineering by S.K. Sharma

 

 

TRANSPORTATION ENGG. LAB

1.      Test on aggregates

(1)   Strength Test

(2)   Impact Test

(3)   Abrasion Test

(4)   ShapeTest

2.      Tests on Bituminus Materials

(1)   Penetration Test

(2)   Softening point test

(3)   Stripping test

(4)   Ductility test

3.      1. Traffic Volumes Study (Manual as well as mechanical method)

2. Traffic Speed study (Endoscope method)