Introduction to Pavement Engineering and Management (CCA-01) Course Outline

Module 1: Pavement Overview

  • What are pavements
  • Functional requirements
  • What stakeholders want
  • Pavement types and key issues
  • Drainage
  • Pavement life cycle

Module 2: Pavement Materials

  • Strength, stiffness, damage definitions
  • Soils and stabilization
  • Aggregate
  • Asphalt and asphalt mixes
  • Sprayed asphalt
  • Cement and concrete
  • Materials of the future

Module 3: Sustainability considerations

  • Cost sustainability and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA)
  • Environmental sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA)
  • Environmental impacts of materials production and construction
  • Environmental Product Declarations

Module 4: Traffic, Environment and Basics of Treatment Types

  • Treatment definitions
  • Pavement life cycle
  • Traffic variables
  • Climate variables

Module 5: Pavement Distresses for Asphalt Surfaced Pavement

  • Structural distresses
  • Surface distresses
  • Soils problems
  • Preservation and maintenance treatments
  • Decision tree logic to address distresses with preservation and maintenance

Module 6: Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Design and Selection Process

  • Project investigation
    • Desktop
    • Site
    • Sampling and testing
  • Examples of inadequate site investigation
  • Treatments
    • Asphalt overlays
    • Partial-depth reclamation
    • Full-depth reclamation
    • Concrete overlays
  • Decision logic

Module 7: Pavement Distresses for Concrete Surfaced Pavement

  • Concrete pavement distress mechanisms
    • Design and construction
    • Pavement design, jointing
    • Mix design
  • Construction
  • Concrete pavement maintenance and rehabilitation

Module 8: Pavement Distresses for Surface Treated, Gravel Surfaced and Permeable Pavements

  • Gravel and surface treated roads
    • Distress mechanisms
    • Engineered Gravel
    • Unpaving to engineered gravel
  • Permeable pavement
    • Distress mechanisms
    • Functionality
    • Use

Module 9: Overview of Pavement Management

  • What is a pavement management system
  • How a PMS works
    • Framework
    • Condition survey
    • Decision trees
    • Prioritization

Module 10: Overview of LCCA and LCA and How to Use This Information

  • Introduction to LCCA
  • Introduction to LCA
    • How it works
    • What to focus on now to improve sustainability
    • EPDs

Overview of Other Pavement Courses in the CCPIC/Tech Transfer Program