ROAD PAVEMENT SETTLEMENT DETERMINATION

Abstract

Settlement is a type of pavement defect that occurs majorly due to induced stresses from vehicular wheel loads repetitions on the pavement. Though pavement settlement after construction cannot be avoided it is a continuous process but the degree at which it settles, that take the center stage. In this work the factors that can cause settlement where spelt out and analysed, the response of the pavement to these factors was observed using the dumpy level to take the differential settlement of the pavement on periodic basis of two weeks, a settlement of 5mm, 9mm and 13mm respectively was observed for the duration of the study, from the observed result it can be said that the pavement was subjected to mild stresses because there are less trucks and buses using the road way. The small settlement noticed shows that the pavement design satisfies the traffic load and environmental condition.