COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PAVEMENT DESIGN

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INŞ 4088 PAVEMENT DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BURAK ŞENGÖZ

Offered to

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to explain principles governing the types of pavements and design processes. Data sets will be analyzed that should be used in design.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Clasification of the pavements with details
2   To be able to compare the superiority of pavement types according to each other technically and economically
3   To be able to examine the road superstructure and the deterioration of the road superstructure
4   To examine design process criteria with details
5   To solve each superstructure projecting method with examples

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General information, definitions, objectives of highway an runway, flexible and rigid pavement cross sections
2 Arranging of wheel loads, design process criteria for flexible pavements, traffic and axle loads, design strategies
3 Distress on flexible pavements, theory of flexible pavement, layered system concepts
4 One layer system, two layer systems, three layer systems
5 Design process, subgrade stress
6 Vehicle and traffic consideration, fixed traffic versus fixed vehicle
7 MIDTERM EXAM
8 Determination of equivalent wheel loads and Calculation of equivalent wheel loads, equivalent axle loads
9 Design of flexible highway pavements, design strategies, group index method
10 CBR method, AASHTO method and applications
11 Rigid pavements, distress of pavements, rigid pavements and airport pavements
12 Transverse joints, longitudinal joints
13 Design of rigid highway pavements
14 Homework submission and presentations and general discussions

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):

Bituminous Mixtures in Road Construction, Robert N. Hunter ,Thomas Telford Ltd., 978-0727716835, USA, 1994

Supplementary Book(s):

1- Asfalt El Kitabı, Mehmet Uluçaylı, Isfalt Yayınları, 975-8183-01, Istanbul, 2002

2- Shell Bitüm El Kitabı, Abdullah Hilmi Lav, M. Aysen Lav, David Whiteoak, Isfalt Yayınları, 975-8183-02-8, Istanbul, 2004


Materials: Presentations used in lecture

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The visual presentations and presentation slides.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-2, 3-4: Consideration with mid-term exam and final exam
LO 5: Consideration with assignments and presentations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance will be considered in the evaluation. The rules of writing term paper topics, and it will be distributed to students at the beginning of the period

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Burak ŞENGÖZ: burak.sengoz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

The course schedule will be announced by the faculty member is created.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 85

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.13
LO.24
LO.34
LO.455
LO.5555