COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PAVEMENT DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5178 PAVEMENT DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BURAK ŞENGÖZ

Offered to

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Course Objective

Pavements are important parts of highways and runways. They are in continuous contact with traffic, climate conditions and environment effects. Their characteristics determine the service life of highways and runways.
The aim of the course is to explain principles governing the design of flexible pavements. After a study of stresses developing in pavements under wheel load, material characteristics and climate conditions, design methods for flexible pavement are
presented.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Clasification of the pavements with details
2   To compare the types of pavement with technical point of view.
3   To examine the irregularities occurring within the pavement system
4   To examine design process criteria with details
5   To illustrate a sample for each design method.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Week 1 Introduction Definition of pavement types
2 Week 2 Design process criteria for flexible pavements Traffic and axle loads, design strategies
3 Week 3 Distress on flexible pavements, Theory of flexible pavement, layered system concepts Homework and presentation assignment
4 Week 4 One layer system, two layer systems, three layer systems
5 Week 5 Design process, subgrade stres Homework submission and presentations
6 Week 6 Vertical-horizontal-shear stress and vertical deformation
7 Week 7 Vehicle and traffic consideration, Fixed traffic versus fixed vehicle, Calculation of equivalent wheel loads, equivalent axle loads Homework and presentation assignment
8 Week 8 Methods fort he design of flexible highway pavements, Design strategies
9 Week 9 Group index method CBR method, AASHTO method and applications Homework submission and presentations
10 Week 10 Amprical-anaytical-amprical analytical methos-a general inrtoduction
11 Week 11 Amprical (AASHTO 72) method Homework and presentation assignment
12 Week 12 Amprical-Analytical (AASHTO 86-AASHTO93) method Homework submission and presentations
13 Week 13 Analytical method
14 Week 14 General Directorate of Highways Method and example Homework submission and presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Yoder E.J.; Wıtczak M.W., Principles of Pavement Design, John Wiley Inc., New York, 2.
Edition.
Supplementary Book(s):
Mehmet Uluçaylı (2002) Asfalt El Kitabı, Isfalt Yayınları,975-8183-01, Istanbul.
Abdullah Hilmi Lav, M. Aysen Lav, David Whiteoak (2004), Shell Bitüm El Kitabı, Isfalt
Yayınları,975-8183-02-8, Istanbul.

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 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


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

English

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)

Prof.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 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 4 12 48
Preparing presentations 4 12 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 218

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.14543
LO.2534324
LO.35434
LO.45344
LO.54543

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