Module III : Few other topics on concrete pavement
Lecture 4 : Composite Pavements
  Recapitulation

  • Composite pavement comprises of two or more pavement layers one of which is bituminous and the other is concrete.
  • Composite pavement generally designed as overlay on existing pavement. The overlay can be designed, by empirical approach, where the thickness deficiency is estimated by deflection testing or other NDT methods. In mechanistic based approach, the general formulation of the proposed composite pavement structure, is presented to find out the overlay thickness so that critical stress/strain parameters are within allowable limits.