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Unit Code: 601

Road Pavement Design

  • Unit Duration:

    One semester

  • Credit Points:
    1
This unit provides advanced knowledge for professional work with the design of road pavements and as a pathway to further learning. It will impart cognitive skills to think critically about the specifications and materials employed and the methods used to design road pavement structures. The unit will also provide specialised technical and creative skills relevant to current and future professional practice. It will build upon and further develop the basic skills and knowledge imparted in the core Unit 600 Fundamentals of Roads and Pavements and the core Unit 613 Fundamentals of Road Construction.

Unit Topics

  • Topic 1

    Introduction

  • Topic 2

    Factors Influencing Pavement Selection and Design

  • Topic 3

    Specifications and Pavement Materials

  • Topic 4

    Unbound Granular Materials

  • Topic 5

    Cemented Materials

  • Topic 6

    Bitumen Based Materials

  • Topic 7

    Design Life and Traffic Loading

  • Topic 8

    Design of Lightly Trafficked Pavements

  • Topic 9

    Flexible Pavement Design

  • Topic 10

    Concrete Materials

  • Topic 11

    Rigid Pavement Design

  • Topic 12

    International Pavement Design and Future Developments in Pavement Design

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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