Module manager: Yue Huang
Email: Y.Huang1@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
The highway network is a major economic asset of any country. This is an intensive five-day module, which is delivered by ITS staff and practising engineers. Material covered includes the design of pavements, pavement materials, highway management, forms of deterioration and associated investigative techniques, repair and maintenance and strengthening of pavements.
The module aims to familiarize students with issues surrounding pavement deterioration and maintenance such that they will be able to diagnose problems and recommend effective solutions.
1. Understanding of the most common forms of pavement deterioration
2. Knowledge of a range of investigative techniques that may be used to identify the forms of deterioration
3. Awareness of a range of remedical measures which may be used and ability to select the most practical and economic course of action
4. Awareness of the overall process of managing the highway asset
- General introduction to bituminous concrete and other materials as used in pavements and their limitations.
- Investigation and diagnosis of a range of deterioration of a range of pavement types, including unpaved, bituminous, concrete, block paved roads and heavy duty pavements.
- Estimation of traffic loading, both past and future.
- Data collection to determine the construction and maintenance history of the pavement, using invasive and non-destructive methods including ground penetrating radar.
- Characterising existing materials of construction.
- Use of the falling Weight Deflectometer, longitudinal and transverse.
- Profiling and Skid resistance measuring equipment and interpretation of the output.
- Estimation of required strengthening requirements.
- Whole life costing and the preparation of economic and practical maintenance and rehabilitation proposals.
- Practical aspects of repair and strengthening together with relevant on-site and laboratory controls.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fieldwork | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Lecture | 14 | 1.5 | 21 |
| Seminar | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Private study hours | 122 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 28 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Verbal feedback will be provided by staff (x3) during the 3-hour long seminar to all groups on their presentation. Groups will use the feedback to work on their group report (Coursework), which will be due in 10 working days.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Group Project | Group Presentaton and Report | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 50 | |
Resit of this module is 100% by OTLA.
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Online Time-Limited assessment | 2.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 50 | |
Resit of this module is 100% by OTLA.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 19/08/2024
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