Design of plain jointed c

Sl.No Name of component

1 width of carriage way (m) 4
2 subgrade CBR (%) 10
3 shoulder tied concrete
4 transverse joint spacing (m) 4.5
5 design life (Yrs) 30
6 cumulative commercial vehicles (Millions) 57
7 average no. of axles per cumulative vehicles 2.6
8 portion of traffic in 6hr day time 0.24
9 portion of traffic in 6hr night time 0.35
10 traffic proportions with axles
i.rear single axle 0.223
ii.tandem axle 0.37
iii.tridem axle 0.022
11 GSB Thickness (mm) 150
12 DLC Thickness (mm) 150
13 Location Roukrela
14 Grade of concrete Slab M40

Selection of Design Traffic for Fatigue Analysis

Annual Growth Rate of Commercial vehicles (assumed)
Two-Way commercial Traffic volume Millions per day
Total two-way commercial vehicles during design period
Total two-way axle load repetitions during the design period
Number of axles in predominant direction
Design traffic after adjusting for lateral placement of axles (25 %
of predominant
direction traffic for multi-lane highways)
Day-time Six-Hour axle load repetitions
Night-time Six-Hour axle load repetitions
design number of axle load repetitions for bottom-up cracking analysis
design number of axle load repetitions for Top- Down cracking
analysis
The axle load category-wise design axle load repetitions for bo
fatigue cracking analysis are given in the follow

Proportion of
Axle Category the axle category

Rear single 0.223

Tandem 0.37
Tridem 0.022
C) Cumulative Fatigue Damage (CFD) analysis for Bottom-up Cra

Effective modulus of subgrade reaction of foundation (k) Mpa

Elastic Modulus of concrete ( E ) Mpa
Poisson’s ratio of concrete ( µ )
Unit weight of concrete ( ᵞ ) KN/m3
Design flexural strength of concrete (MPa)
Max. day-time Temperature Differential in slab (for bottom-up cracking)
Night-time Temperature Differential in slab (for top-down cracking)

Pavement Option I - Concrete pavemen

t

Trial thickness of slab (h) meters 0.3

Radius of relative stiffness (l) meters 0.6926541458
 Design of plain jointed concrete pavement (with dowel bars)
Rear single axle Rear tandem axle
Load group (KN) Mid Point f Load group (KN) Mid Point f
185-195 190 0 380-400 390 0
175-185 180 0 360-380 370 0
165-175 170 0 340-360 350 0
155-165 160 0 320-340 330 0
145-155 150 0 300-320 310 0
135-145 140 0.44 280-300 290 0.53
125-135 130 0 260-280 270 3.45
115-125 120 0.44 240-260 250 13.26
105-115 110 1.76 220-240 230 23.87
95-105 100 1.32 200-220 210 11.41
85-95 90 3.53 180-200 190 21.49
<85 80 92.51 <180 170 25.99

0.075
57
2151224.56942
5593183.88049
2796591.94025

699147.985061
167795.516415
244701.794772
167795.516415

244701.794772
se design axle load repetitions for bottom-up and top-down
cking analysis are given in the following table

Category-wise axle Category-wise axle

repetitions for Bottomup repetitions for topdown
cracking analysis cracking analysis
37418.400160491 54568.5002340494
62084.3410734604 90539.6640654631
3691.5013611247 5383.4394849735
D) analysis for Bottom-up Cracking (BUC) and Top-down Cracking (TDC) and Selection of Slab Thickness

300
30000
0.15
24
4.95
21
15.5

nt Option I - Concrete pavement with tied concrete shoulder with dowel bars across
transverse joints
 Rear tridem axle
Load group (KN) Mid Point f
530-560 545 0
500-530 515 0
470-500 485 0
440-470 455 0
410-440 425 0
380-410 395 0
350-380 365 4.55
320-350 335 18.18
290-320 305 59.09
260-290 275 4.55
230-260 245 0
<230 <230 13.64
f Slab Thickness