Unit Code: CED605

Unit Name: Highway Engineering

Description: Sustainability and maintenance aspects of road projects are the major challenges for the project supervising engineers so as to avoid intended road failures and accidents. It is required to evaluate and understand the various aspects of highway engineering such as highway geometry and curve setting, traffic analysis, traffic signals, highway materials, fundamentals of highway design and highway maintenance. This course will enable you to understand highway principles, highway geometric design, curve setting, traffic analysis, traffic signals, highway materials and their quality assessment. You will also learn basic concepts of highway design and stresses, highway maintenance aspects. You will be exposed to the highway material testing practices such as aggregate crushing, impact, abrasion, shape tests, bitumen fire and flash point, softening point, ductility etc. These tests will enable you to understand how to assess a highway material quality. You will learn how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D in transportation design projects.

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Prerequisite: CED507

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 12

Offered In: Semester 1