course-details-portlet

TBA4218 - Pavement Technology

About

Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score
Grade: Letter grades

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Project 30/100
School exam 70/100 4 hours B

Course content

Pavement materials, methods for asphalt mixture design, bituminous binders, distress mechanisms, stress/strain analyses, methods for structural design, bearing capacity, strengthening.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

  • Pavement materials
  • Asphalt binders and mix design methods
  • Loads and structural design methods for pavements

Skills:

  • Evaluation of strength and deformation properties of pavement materials
  • Make a professional choice of asphalt binder
  • Use different methods to perform asphalt mix design
  • Perform structural design of roads to withstand traffic and climatic loads

General competence:

  • Perform reasonable material choices for different pavement layers/elements
  • Perform structural design of pavements to withstand today's and future changes of climate and traffic

Learning methods and activities

Lectures combined with individual and group exercises. A laboratory course is included. The lectures and exercises are in English when non-Norwegian speaking students follow the subject.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

The assessment in this course is based on two parts; a written exam which counts for 70 % of the total grade, and a project that counts for 30 %.

Compulsory activity in the course is that 80 % of the ordinary exercises have to be approved in order to be eligible for the exam.

If there is a re-sit examination, the examination type may be changed from written to oral.

Required previous knowledge

Knowledge equivalent to TBA4203.

Course materials

Compendium, handbooks and computer programs.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
SIB4020 7.5 AUTUMN 2015
TBA4217 7.5 AUTUMN 2015
TBA4220 7.5 AUTUMN 2015
TBA4335 7.5 AUTUMN 2015
SIB4005 7.5 AUTUMN 2015
More on the course

No

Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  SPRING 2024

Language of instruction: English, Norwegian

Location: Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Road, Transport and Geomatics
  • Railway Engineering
  • Highway Engineering
Contact information
Course coordinator: Lecturer(s):

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Examination

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Spring ORD School exam 70/100 B 2024-05-21 15:00 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
SL310 Sluppenvegen 14 15
Spring ORD Project 30/100

Release
2024-03-15

Submission
2024-04-05


10:00


14:00

INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Summer UTS School exam 70/100 B INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

For more information regarding registration for examination and examination procedures, see "Innsida - Exams"

More on examinations at NTNU