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A pavement designer has arrived at a design traffic of 100 million standard axles for a newly developing national highway as per IRC:37 guidelines using the following data:
Design life = 15 years
Commercial vehicle count before pavement construction = 4500 vehicles/day
Annual traffic growth rate = 8%.
The vehicle damage factor used in the calculation was
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- 1.53
- 2.24
- 3.66
- 4.14
Correct Option: B
msa = | × F | |
r |
100 × 106 = | 365 × 4500 | ![]() | ![]() | 1 + | ![]() | 15 | - 1 | ![]() | |
100 | |||||||||
100 |
∴ F = 2.24