Development of software for rigid pavement thickness design

Rigid pavement is frequently misunderstood form of construction. Many people assume that rigid pavement is costly and not effective. However, it has been proven that it is good in term of the strength and durability to cater high traffic load compare to flexible pavement. However, in order to have g...

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Main Author:	Mohd. Satar, Mohd. Khairul Idham
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
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spelling	my-utm-ep.119952017-09-17T07:49:19Z Development of software for rigid pavement thickness design 2009-11 Mohd. Satar, Mohd. Khairul Idham TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements Rigid pavement is frequently misunderstood form of construction. Many people assume that rigid pavement is costly and not effective. However, it has been proven that it is good in term of the strength and durability to cater high traffic load compare to flexible pavement. However, in order to have good rigid pavement, the design procedures of the pavement should be properly applied. The vital issue in pavement design is thickness. There are two main approaches of design the rigid pavement thickness which are Portland Cement Association (PCA) method and American Association of States Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) method. However, both methods are difficult to conduct manually and may produce inaccurate result. The difficulties can be expressed in term of time consuming and tedious calculation. Hence, it is very important to computerize the methods in order to make it more accurate and quicker. Although there are available software in the market but the software may not be user-friendly enough. It also does not allow the user to compare between methods. Generally, both methods have their own concept but there are still several same parameters considered. Therefore, the significance comparison between both methods can be done to select most economical pavement thickness design. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 was the tools used to develop the new software. Software named as AnP Pave was successfully developed. Moreover, based on the verification result there are only small difference between the software and manual calculation. However, an improvement needs to be applied to make the software capable to design pavement reinforcement and produce printable design report. 2009-11 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11995/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11995/6/MohdKhairulIdhamMFKA2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering 1. Elaine Ang. C&CA on the road to boost cement sales. The Star. . 2006, October 23. Retrieved 3rd March 2009, from http://thestar.com.my 2. Delatte N. Concrete Pavement Design, Construction, and Performance. United States. Taylor & Francis. 2008 3. http://training.ce.washington.edu. Date Accessed: 3rd March 2009. 4. Glanville W. H. Concrete Roads Design and Construction.2nd Ed. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1965 5. Huang, Y.H. Pavement Analysis and Design.2nd Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 2004 6. Paul H. Wright & Karen K, Dixon. Highway Engineering. 7th Ed. United States.: Wiley. 2004 7. Course on Concrete Road Pavement Design 2008. Kuala Lumpur. 17-18th November 2008 8. Ying-Haur Lee and Samuel H. Carpenter. PCAWIN Program for Jointed Concrete Pavement Design. Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering. 2001. 4(4): 293-300. 9. Road Engineering Association of Malaysia. Guidelines to the Design of Plain Concrete Pavement. REAM-GL 7/2004. 2004 10. Randall-Reilly Publishing. Better Road Magazine. 2007. 11. John Duval. Debunking Streetpave’s Claim of an “Equivalent” Asphalt Design. Asphalt Institute. 2007 12. American Concrete Pavement Association. (2004). Title of article. Concrete Pavement Progress: Highway Issue, 40, 5. 13. David L. Guell, (1985). Comparison of Two Rigid Pavement Design Methods. Journal of Transportation Engineering. 111, 607-617. 14. H.M. Deitel, P.J. Deitel and T.R. Neito. Visual Basic 6 How to Program. Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice-Hall. 1999 15. Aida Wee Sze Chia (2006). Software Development for Water Pricing Model. Master Degree Thesis. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Skudai.
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description	Rigid pavement is frequently misunderstood form of construction. Many people assume that rigid pavement is costly and not effective. However, it has been proven that it is good in term of the strength and durability to cater high traffic load compare to flexible pavement. However, in order to have good rigid pavement, the design procedures of the pavement should be properly applied. The vital issue in pavement design is thickness. There are two main approaches of design the rigid pavement thickness which are Portland Cement Association (PCA) method and American Association of States Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) method. However, both methods are difficult to conduct manually and may produce inaccurate result. The difficulties can be expressed in term of time consuming and tedious calculation. Hence, it is very important to computerize the methods in order to make it more accurate and quicker. Although there are available software in the market but the software may not be user-friendly enough. It also does not allow the user to compare between methods. Generally, both methods have their own concept but there are still several same parameters considered. Therefore, the significance comparison between both methods can be done to select most economical pavement thickness design. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 was the tools used to develop the new software. Software named as AnP Pave was successfully developed. Moreover, based on the verification result there are only small difference between the software and manual calculation. However, an improvement needs to be applied to make the software capable to design pavement reinforcement and produce printable design report.
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author	Mohd. Satar, Mohd. Khairul Idham
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title	Development of software for rigid pavement thickness design
title_short	Development of software for rigid pavement thickness design
title_full	Development of software for rigid pavement thickness design
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Development of software for rigid pavement thickness design

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