Rigid Pavements Division
Areas of R & D and Consultancy/Core Activities
Areas of R & D
- Design, Construction, Evaluation and Maintenance of Concrete Pavements
- Innovation in Concrete Technology
- Utilization of industrial wastes and By-products in Concrete Road Construction
- Development of New Binders for Concrete
- Concrete for Sustainable Development
- Instrumentation for Rigid Pavements
- Investigation of causes of distresses / failures and Remedial measures
Consultancy / Core Activities
- Design, construction, evaluation and maintenance of Rigid pavements
- Pavement performance evaluation and distresses / failure investigations
- Strengthening / rehabilitation of Rigid pavements
- Quality control, quality assurance and quality audit of road works
- Utilization of industrial wastes and by-products in concrete road construction
- Design of concrete mixes using fly ash, fiber, silica fume and super plasticizers etc.
- Evaluation, Rehabilitation and Repair of Concrete Pavements
- Quality control aspects of concrete pavements
- Testing, evaluation and characterization of road construction materials
Infrastructure Facilities
- Servo Control Hydraulic Testing Machines
- Universal Testing Machine
- Abrasion Testing Machine
- British Pendulum Tester
- Walk-In-Environmental Chamber
- Data-logger for capturing real time strain data from Concrete Pavement
- Impact Resistance Test Apparatus
- Compression Testing Machine
- Dry Shrinkage Apparatus
- Diamond Core Cutter
- Pan Mixer
- Vibratory Table
- Core cutting Machine
- Materials Testing Laboratory for Cement, Flyash, Aggregates and Concrete
- Humidity Chamber
- Autoclave (Soundness of Cement)
- Automatic Compactor
Training Programmes
- Design, Construction and Maintenance of Rigid Pavements
- Customize Training Programme in all Advance Aspects of Concrete Pavement design, Repair and Rehabilitation
Technologies Developed by the Division
- Roller compacted concrete for pavements
- High volume fly ash concrete for pavements
- Ultra thin while topping using High performance fiber reinforcement concrete for resurfacing of existing Asphalt Pavement
- Use of Wollastonite (Natural Mineral Fibers) in cement concrete
- Synthetic Fiber Reinforced Concrete
- Use of marble slurry dust in cement concrete
- Use of slags in cement concrete
- Sand stabilization with Magnesium Oxy-Chloride cement
- Magnesium Phosphate cement for quick repair of concrete
Contribution to Standards
- BIS:456:2000 Plain and Reinforced concrete – Code of Practice
- IRC:15-2011 Standard Specification and Code of Practice for Construction of Concrete Roads ( Third Revision)
- IRC 58-2015 Guidelines for the Design of Plain Jointed Rigid Pavements for Highways (Second Revision)
- IRC:SP: 49-2014 Guidelines for the use of Dry Lean concrete as sub-base for Rigid Pavements
- IRC: SP: 62-2004 Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Cement concrete Pavements for Rural Roads.
- IRC:SP:68-2005 Guidelines for Construction of Roller Compacted Concrete Pavements
- IRC: SP:76-2008 Tentative Guidelines for Conventional, Thin and Ultra thin White topping
- IRC: SP: 83-2008 Guidelines for Maintenance, Repairs and Rehabilitation of Cement Concrete Pavements