COURSE CODE: CVE 506
COURSE TITLE: Highway and Transportation Engineering II
NUMBER OF UNITS: 3 Units
COURSE DURATION: Three hours per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Dr. ABIOLA, Oladapo Samson B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D
E-mail: lolu4dapo@yahoo.com
Office Location: Civil Engineering Building
Other Lecturers: Nil
COURSE SYNOPSIS:
Pavement structures and design. Highway, railway and airport pavements. Construction materials, construction and maintenance. Flexible, rigid and composite pavement designs. Construction of asphaltic and cement concrete pavements. Pavement failures, maintenance overlays. Soil engineering aspects of highways, railways, harbours and airfields. California bearing Ratio (CBR) method extended to airports. Portland Cement Association method for rigid airport pavements. Hill road geometrics, construction and drainage. Administration and finance of highways. Traffic safety sand management. General road maintenance.