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Unit Code: 602

Pavement Construction

  • Unit Duration:

    One semester

  • Credit Points:
    1

This unit provides students with the opportunity to gain advanced professional knowledge in road pavement construction. It will impart cognitive skills to think critically about the materials employed and the methods used to construct flexible and rigid pavements to deliver the required levels of service for roads within the broader network. The unit will also provide specialised technical and creative skills relevant to current and future professional practice. It will further develop the basic skills and knowledge imparted in the core units.

The unit considers the effectiveness of a pavement in distributing the wheel loads over the subgrade and discusses how a properly constructed pavement ensures the relative rigidity of the pavement and subgrade. Two main types of pavement are considered, namely “flexible” pavements that have a comparatively low flexural rigidity and concrete “rigid” pavements, which depend on high stiffness for the distribution of axle loads.  The various steps in the construction process from material manufacture to placement in the roadbed are discussed in some detail.

Unit Topics

  • Topic 1

    Preparation for Pavement Placement

  • Topic 2

    Pavement Materials and Construction Methods

  • Topic 3

    Pavement Drainage

  • Topic 4

    Preparation for Surfacing

  • Topic 5

    Spray Seal Application

  • Topic 6

    Construction of Asphalt Pavements

  • Topic 7

    Construction of Concrete Pavements

  • Topic 8

    Construction of Bound Pavements

  • Topic 9

    Construction of Segmental Block Pavements

  • Topic 10

    Future Directions

Prerequisites and Corequisites

  • Pavement Technology
    Master and Graduate Certificate
    Prerequisites: 600: Fundamentals of Roads and Pavements
    613: Fundamentals of Road Construction
    Corequisites: Nil

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