MILITARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Department of Civil Engineering

Level: 4 Term: I Year: 2017

COURSE CODE: CE 451 CREDIT HOURS: 4.0

COURSE TITLE: Highway Design & Railway

COURSE CONTENTS
* Pavement materials: bituminous binders, cement, aggregates, embankment material,
soil stabilization; mix design methods
* Flexible and rigid pavement: pavement components and functions
* Pavement design and construction
* Road maintenance
* Low cost roads
* Railway engineering: general requirements, rolling stock and tracks, stations and
yards, points and crossings, signaling, maintenance operations, pavement construction
equipment and uses.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. To familiarize with the properties, test procedures , specifications and uses of various
types of pavement materials including mix design methods.
2. To acquire knowledge on characteristics, functions and types of pavement including
latest development.
3. To acquaint with the different design methods of rigid and flexible pavement.
4. To have clear idea about road maintenance and construction equipment.
5. To familiarize with low cost road.
6. Learning the basic knowledge on railway engineering, rolling stocks and tracks,
signaling, stations and yards

LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Students will be able to select the right type of materials for specific pavement
projects basing on test, specifications, and design method.
2. Students will be able to recommend the need for a particular type of pavement from
a given set of conditions, after analyzing its relative advantages and disadvantages
with other types of pavement.
3. Students will be able to estimate the thickness of rigid and flexible pavement using
AASHTO, Asphalt Institute, PCA, Road Note 31and RHD design methods.
4. Students will be able to identify different pavement distresses and recommend
appropriate remedial measures.
5. Students will be able to employ appropriate construction equipment for different
phases of road construction work.
6. Students will be able to specify requirements for various elements of railway tracks,
signals, stations and yards

STUDENT EVALUATION
The course grade will be determined from a weighted average of the attendance,
observations, assignments, class tests and the final examinations. The weights are as follows:

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 Contents Percentage
Attendance 5%
Observations/Presentation 5%
Class Tests 20%
Final 70%
Total 100%

TEXT AND IMPORTANT REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Pavement Analysis and Design-Yang H. Huang 2nd edition
2. Highway Engineering– Paul H. Wright (7th Edition)
3. Transportation Engineering and Transport Planning–L.R. Kadiyali
4. Principles of Pavement design–E.J. Yoder
5. Railway Engineering–Rangwala
6. Railway Engineering–Agarwal (Student Edition)
7. Highway capacity manual-Transportation research reports, national research council,
Washington D.C., 2000.
8. Introduction to Transportation Engineering-Tom V. Mathew and K V Krishna Rao,
NPTEL May 24, 2006
9. Strategic Transport Plan and revised Strategic Transport Plan
10. Geometric Design Standard for Roads and Highways department Government of
Bangladesh

FACULTY NAME AND CONTACT

(1) Col Shah Md Muniruzzaman, Senior Instructor
Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
Room 701, Telephone: 8000467/8000296; E-mail: [email protected]
(2) Dr. Alamgir Mujibul Hoque , Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
Room 715, Mobile: 01759912260; E-mail: [email protected]
(3) Col Nasir Uddin Ahmed, Senior Instructor
Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
Telephone: Military: Ext- 4020, Cell: 01769024020; E-mail: [email protected]

CLASS TIMING
Days Time Level/ Term/Section
Monday 1130-1220 Level 4, Term 1, Sec A
Tuesday 1000-1050 Level 4, Term 1, Sec A
Wednesday 0900-1050 Level 4, Term 1, Sec A
Tuesday 1000-1050 Level 4, Term 1, Sec B
Wednesday 0900-0950 Level 4, Term 1, Sec B
Thursday 0800-0950 Level 4, Term 1, Sec B

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CLASS SCHEDULE
Weeks Lectures Intended topics to be covered
1-2 Pavement: definition, Types, Characteristics, functions, layers,
comparison of different types of pavement, ME design Method.
1 3 Bituminous Materials
4 Advantages and disadvantages of rail and road transport, elements of
railway system
5-6 Pavement: definition, Types, Characteristics, functions, layers,
comparison of different types of pavement, ME design Method.
2 7 Properties of Bitumen
8 Definition and main requirements of permanent way, functions and
requirements of good ballast,
9-10 Pavement Design Requirement
3 11 Tests of Asphaltic Materials
12 Sleepers: requirements, types
13 Road Test
14 Stress and strain in pavement
4 15 Aggregates: Properties
16 Bangladesh Railway: brief history, general features of BR and other
countries
17-18 Stress and strain in pavement
5 19 Aggregates: Tests and Specifications
20 Train resistance and tractive power
21 Joints in Pavement
22 Material Characterization
6
23 Mix Design: General issues
24 Mode of distresses of rail
25-26 Road maintenance
7 27 Mix Design: Marshall Method
28 Track fittings and fastenings
29-30 Design of Flexible pavement by AASHTO & Asphalt Institute Method
8 31 Mix Design: Hveem Method
32 Curvature of Track
33-34 Design of Rigid pavement by AASHTO Method
9 35 Mix Design: Superpave
36 Points and crossings: definitions, turnout, switches
37-38 RHD Design Method
10 39 Use of Soil as Pavement Material
40 Details of Crossings
41-42 PCA design Method
43 Embankment Materials
11
44 Railway Stations and Yards, purposes, site selection, facilities,
classifications
45-46 Low Cost Road
12 47 Use of Cement as Pavement Material
48 Signaling and interlocking (contd…)
49-50 Road Note 31
13
51 Soil Stabilization

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 52 Signaling and interlocking
53-54 Construction Equipment
14 55 Soil Stabilization
56 Track maintenance

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