ENTR621-22X (C) General non-calendar-based 2022

Special Topic: Pavement Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 29 August 2022
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 11 September 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 23 October 2022

Description

Special Topic: Pavement Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Management

This course covers important aspects of pavement maintenance, rehabilitation, and management. The first part of the course is concerned with methods and measures of pavement condition. Students will then learn about maintenance and rehabilitation strategies appropriate for different types of pavements at different stages of deterioration. The last part of the course introduces students to pavement management, network definition, performance models, budget scenarios and the development of multi-year maintenance and rehabilitation plans.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- List and describe methods of pavement condition evaluation and the corresponding condition indices.
- List and describe maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) strategies for flexible, rigid, and composite pavement structures.
- Select appropriate M&R strategies as a function of pavement type, condition, traffic levels, and environmental factors.
- List and describe the elements of a pavement management system (PMS) network.
- Develop an M&R decision matrix for implementation in PMS
- Use simple regression techniques to develop pavement condition models
- Compare and contrast PMS budget scenarios
- Demonstrate research and presentation skills

Learning Outcomes

The course will comprise teaching material covering the following topics:
1. Review of pavement structures and materials.
2. The pavement life cycle.
3. Pavement condition evaluation: distress, roughness, deflection, coring, GPR, friction.
4. Asphalt concrete distress.
5. Flexible pavement preventive maintenance treatments.
6. Flexible pavement traditional maintenance and rehabilitation strategies.
7. Flexible pavement recycling and reclaiming strategies.
8. Portland cement concrete distress.
9. Rigid pavement preventive maintenance treatments
10. Rigid pavement traditional maintenance and rehabilitation strategies.
11. Rigid pavement recycling and reclaiming strategies.
12. Elements of a pavement management system
13. M&R decision matrix
14. Performance models
15. Budget scenarios
16. Multi-year M&R plans and GIS integration

Prerequisites

Subject to approval by the Director of Studies.

Timetable Note

The course is delivered over two blocks, each block is two days of teaching from 9:00 to 5:00 pm with some frequent breaks for lunch and tea. Each block would comprise lectures, tutorial, students’ presentations for reach topics, and demonstrations within the pavement laboratory. The teaching block would be held at the University of Canterbury. Students would need to make their own travel/accommodation arrangements.

Course Coordinator

Mofreh Saleh

Guest Lecturer

Dragos Andrei

Assessment

Indicative Course Assessment: (subject to confirmation)
- Research Paper (due date TBC) 10%
- Two Assignments (due a week before final exam) 20%
- Lab report (details TBC) 10%
- Challenge Exercise (Optional) 5%
- Final Exam 60%
Students will choose a research topic to investigate from a range of suggested topics (based on the course notes provided) or in any other related subject if the student desires (discuss with the course coordinator beforehand). Students have to carry out literature review on this subject and make a class presentation for 10-15 minutes on this topic during the teaching block and submit a research report. The research project report will be in the form of conference or journal paper format.
The final exam will be a closed-book exam designed to test students’ understanding and application of the material covered in the course notes and teaching block. Students from outside of Christchurch will be able to arrange to sit the final exam in their home town with a suitable local supervisor.
While a minimum 50% overall grade of the total course mark is the usual benchmark for passing, to guarantee a pass in the course you must also achieve at least 40% in both coursework and examination total marks.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,133.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

All ENTR621 Occurrences

  • ENTR621-22X (C) General non-calendar-based 2022
  • ENTR621-22S2 (C) Semester Two 2022 - Not Offered
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