Application Form

Sponsorship Certificate

STTPQIP Course on
RUTTING AND FATIGUE
CRACKING OF BITUMINOUS
PAVEMENTS

(Required for teachers from AICTE recognized

engineering institutions)

Filled application should reach on or before 15 December 2015

will be sponsored to attend the QIP

short term course on RUTTING AND
FATIGUE CRACKING OF BITUMINOUS
PAVEMENTS to be conducted at IIT
Madras during 16 February 2016, if selected.

Name:
Age:
Designation:
Organization:

Certified that Dr./Mr./Ms.

STTP QIP COURSE

ON

Rutting and Fatigue

Cracking of Bituminous
Pavements
16 February 2016
Sponsored by
All India Council for Technical
Education

Mailing Address:
Signature of sponsoring authority with
date and seal

Important

Email:
Educational Qualification:
Specialization:

Boarding and lodging for selected candi-

Registered for Ph.D.: YES/NO

Experience:

Date

Signature of applicant

dates (twin sharing) will be provided.

Lecture notes will be provided at the time of
registration.
The selected candidates will be paid up to 3tier A/C coach fare (2-tier A/C not allowed),
to and fro by the shortest route.
A refundable caution deposit of Rs. 500.00 is
to be paid by those selected for this course.
Notification of acceptance will be mailed by
31 December 2015

Coordinators
Dr. S. P. Atul Narayan
Dr. J. Murali Krishnan

Organized by

Transportation Engineering Division

Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036

Background

Objectives

Registration

The main failure modes of bituminous

pavements are rutting and fatigue cracking. While rutting is a pronounced failure
mode during the early years in a pavement, fatigue (load) cracking manifests
during the later periods in the life of a
pavement.

The main objective of this course is to

provide the participants with an overview
of the current trends in laboratory characterization of rutting and fatigue cracking
as well as on the development of distress
transfer functions.

No registration fee will be charged to

teachers of AICTE recognized engineering institutions.

In the pavement design procedures, the

onset of rutting and fatigue cracking are
taken into account through distress transfer functions. Such functions/models are
developed after extensive laboratory investigation, model development, and integration of field performance data with the
laboratory data. Tacit in such framework
is the assumption related to mechanical
behavior of materials, damage mechanics integrated with the expected reliability.

In the last decade, considerable advancements have been made in terms of development of experimental procedures for
quantifying rutting and fatigue cracking.
The pavement design software such as
AASHTOWARE have also integrated the
influence of environment, axle loads and
material models in quantifying the expected pavement life.

Course Contents

Venue
This course will be held in the
Visweswaraya Seminar Hall in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras.

Failure modes of bituminous pave

ments
Introduction to material characterization and damage - Linear theories of
viscoelasticity and damage mechanics
Four point bending of bituminous mixtures - theory, experiment and interpretation of test results
Flow number, flow time and rut wheel
testing - theory, experiment and interpretation of test results
Summary of distress transfer functions - Genesis, data requirement,
assumptions and their success

Eligibility
Sponsored teachers from AICTE recognized engineering institutions are eligible
to apply.

Faculty
The faculty consists of experts in various
disciplines from IIT Madras.

Contact
Dr. S. P. Atul Narayan
atulnryn@iitm.ac.in; 044 2257 4300
Dr. J. Murali Krishnan
jmk@iitm.ac.in; 044 2257 4284
Transportation Engineering Division
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Madras
Chennai 600036
Fax: 044 2257 4252