Infrastructure et transports
Designing pavement structures

5  days intra
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available remotely
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Objectives
  • Know the standards and rules of the trade on the design of road pavement structures.
  • Be capable of assessing the design of road pavement structures in studies and performance reports.
Pedagogical programme

available remotely

Designing new pavements

  • Characterising traffic.
  • Characterising the formation level's soil and the materials for the design.
  • Main design methods.
  • The French rational method.
  • The Alizé design software (LCPC-IFSTTAR).

available remotely

Designing pavement strengthening

  • The general approach to strengthening design.
  • Characterising the deteriorated pavement and calculating its strengthening.

available remotely

Structure of a pavement

  • Basic concepts: various parts of a pavement, role of each layer.
  • Various types of pavement:
  • flexible pavements;
  • semi-rigid pavements;
  • rigid pavements;
  • composite pavements;
  • inverted pavements.
  • Materials from the formation level to the wearing course: bituminous materials, cementitious materials, untreated materials and soil.
Target audience

Ministries or road agencies
Good to know
  • The availability of a room equipped with computers or laptops is necessary.
  • Example of a 5 days programme
Prerequisites

Have held or currently hold a position related to the training theme
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