CE6504 Highway Engineering Books, Lecture Notes, 2marks with answers, Important Part B 16marks Questions &CE6504 Highway Engineering Anna University Question Papers Collection

Subject Code / Name : CE6504 Highway Engineering

 Significance of highway planning – Modal limitations towards sustainability - History of road development in India – Classification of highways – Locations and functions – Factors influencing highway alignment – Soil suitability analysis - Road ecology - Engineering surveys for alignment, objectives, conventional and modern methods.

Typical cross sections of Urban and Rural roads –– Cross sectional elements -  Sight distances  – Horizontal curves, Super elevation, transition curves, widening at curves –  Vertical curves -  Gradients, Special consideration for hill roads - Hairpin bends – Lateral and vertical clearance at underpasses.

Design principles – pavement components and their role - Design practice for flexible and rigid Pavements (IRC methods only) - Embankments

 Highway construction materials, properties, testing methods – CBR Test for subgrade - tests on aggregate & bitumen  – Construction practice including modern materials and methods, Bituminous and Concrete road construction, Polymer modified bitumen, Recycling, Different materials – Glass, Fiber, Plastic, Geo-Textiles, Geo-Membrane (problem not included) - Quality control measures - Highway drainage –– Construction machineries

Pavement  distress  in  flexible  and  rigid  pavements  – Pavement  Management  Systems  - Pavement evaluation, roughness, present serviceability index, skid resistance, structural evaluation, evaluation by deflection measurements – Strengthening of pavements –Types of maintenance – Highway Project formulation.