Category: Roads

Roads, Transportation Engineering

4 Types of Pavement |Flexible and Rigid Pavement Full Details

Vinod Gopinath

Types of pavement are mainly four. I will show you the each of them in detail with the advantages and disadvantages. The flexible pavement layer may reflect the non recoverable as well as recoverable deformations of the lower layer including subgrade on the upper layers and also to the pavement surface. The vertical compressive stress is maximum on the pavement surface directly under the wheel load and is equal to the contact pressure under the wheel.

Roads, Transportation Engineering

Alignment of road: Factors affecting- obligatory points with figures

Vinod Gopinath

Alignment of road is very important during the road construction. We will sweep through what is highway alignment and then the requirements of highway alignment. Followed by that, I will walk you through factors affecting alignment of road. Then, I will describe obligatory points in depth with figures. In nutshell, l am going to make you savvy in the topic.

Roads, Transportation Engineering

Road margins- 6 types of road margin in highway

Vinod Gopinath

Road margins is an inevitable topic everyone should know who are into transportation engineering. We will see the different types of road margins, the details about the right of way on road and the formation width of road as per irc in the blog. I will also walk you through shoulder of the road being an important road margin.

Roads, Transportation Engineering

Classification of roads- 6 types of roads

Vinod Gopinath

Classification of roads can be done based on type of road surface, location, function, road traffic, type fo road pavement, weather and lanes. are the cheapest type of road and is used at the places where traffic is rare. The type of road surface used in these roads is soil. The pavement structure is totally made up of soil available at site