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Analysis of Pavement for National Highway-N.H.1Keywords: Soil Engineering , Soil Mechanics , Flexible Pavement , Geotechnical Construction , Pavement Abstract: Rigid pavements are those which posses note worthy flexural strength or flexural rigidity. The stresses are not transferred from grain to grain to the lower layers as in the ease of flexible pavements layers the rigid pavements are made of Portland cement concrete-either plain, reinforced or prestressed concrete[1]. This paper shows the required to evaluate the strength characteristics of the soil subgrade, this helps the designer to adopt the suitable values of the strength parameter for design purposes and in case this supporting layer does not come upto the expectations, the same is treated or conditioned to suit the requirementsThe plain cement concrete slabs are expected to take up about 40 kg/cm2 flexural stress. As the rigid pavements slab has tensile strength, tensile stresses are developed due to the bending of the slab under wheel load and temperature variations thus the type of stress develop and their distribution within the cement concrete slab are quit different. The rigid pavement does not get deformed to the shape of the lower surface as it can bridge the minor variation of lower layer[2].
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