STUDY ON RUTTING AND SURFACE BEHAVIOUR OF URBAN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT

KumKum Bhattacharya, Sagar Deshmukh

Abstract: Pavement rutting is one of the peculiar and far impacting pavement distresses which being observed in flexible pavements. At present, the pavement surface at the bus shelter area appears to be challenging problem and requires maximum attention due to its severe distress, categorized as higher severity rutting. In order to ponder upon such high severity distress, some of the alternative solutions could stand as: Mastic Asphalt (MA), Use of Modified Bitumen, Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA), White-topping, Glass Fiber Grid, Rigid Pavements and paver-blocks. Thus the overall objective of this study is to explore various alternatives of similar environments and arrive at optimum kind of alternative for Urban Flexible Pavements and also for BRTS Bus Shelters and to evaluate the damage analysis by the use of KENPAVE software of each alternative and compare the cost analysis

Keywords: Flexible Pavement, Mastic Asphalt, Rutting, Stone Matrix Asphalt, White topping

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0304129