SF8010 PAVEMENT ENGINEERING L T P C 3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVE:

Student gains knowledge on designing rigid and flexible pavements for different serviceability

conditions of roads.

UNIT I BASIC CONCEPTS 9

Historical development of pavements – types, classification, components and principle of load

transfer – Approaches to pavement design – vehicle and traffic considerations – behaviour of road

materials under repeated loading – Stresses and deflections in layered systems.

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UNIT II FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT 9

Factors affecting flexible pavements – material characterization for analytical pavement design –

AASHO, CBR, group index methods – Importance of Resilient modulus – Fatigue subsystem –

failure criteria for bituminous pavements – IRC design guidelines.

UNIT III RIGID PAVEMENT 9

Factors affecting rigid pavements - Design procedures for rigid pavement – Slab thickness, dowel

bar, tie bar, spacing of joints – IRC guidelines – Airfield pavements – Comparison of highway and

airfield pavements.

UNIT IV PAVEMENT EVALUATION AND REHABILITATION 9

Pavement evaluation – surface and structural - causes and types of failures in flexible and rigid

pavements – Presents serviceability index of roads – Overlay design - pavements maintenance,

management and construction – Drainage and its importance in pavements.

UNIT V STABILIZATION OF SOILS FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTIONS 9

Need for a stabilized soil – Design criteria – Mechanisms - factors influencing choice of stabilizers

- Testing and field control – Applications of Geosynthetics in road construction - Case studies.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOME:

Students are able to design different new pavements and rehabilitate the existing roads using
recent technology.

REFERENCES:

1. Wright, P.H., "Highway Engineers", John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996.

2. Khanna S.K and Justo C.E.G, "Highway Engineering, 8

th Edition, New Chand and Brothers,

Roorkee, 2001.

3. Yoder R.J and Witchak M.W., "Principles of Pavement Design", John Wiley, 2000.

4. Croney, D., "Design and Performance of Road Pavements", HMO Stationary Office, 1979.

5. "Design and Specification of Rural Roads (Manual)", Ministry of rural roads, Government of

India, New Delhi, 2001.

6. "Guidelines for the Design of Flexible Pavements", IRC:37 - 2001, The Indian roads Congress,

New Delhi.

7. "Guideline for the Design of Rigid Pavements for Highways", IRC:58-1998, The Indian Roads

Congress, New Delhi.

8. O’ Flaherty, C.A., "Highways – The location, Design, Construction & Maintenance of

Pavements", Fourth Edition, Elsevier, 2006

9. Bell. P.S., "Developments in Highway Engineering", Applied Sciences publishers, 1978.

ML 9005 INTRODUCTION TO NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY L T P C

AIM:

To introduce knowledge on basics of Nanoscience and technology

OBJECTIVES:

1.To make the students understand the importance of Nanoscience and technology

2.To make the students to understand the fundamental concepts behind size

reduction

UNIT I NANOSCALE SYSTEMS: 9

Length, energy, and time scales - Quantum confinement of electrons in

semiconductor nanostructures: Quantum confinement in 3D, 2D, 1D and zero

dimensional structures -Size effect and properties of nanostructures- LandauerButtiker formalism for
conduction in confined geometries - Top down and Bottom up

approach.

UNIT II QUANTUM DOTS: 9

Excitons and excitonic Bohr radius – difference between nanoparticles and quantum

dots - Preparation through colloidal methods - Epitaxial methods- MOCVD and MBE

growth of quantum dots - current-voltage characteristics - magneto tunneling

measurements - spectroscopy of Quantum Dots: Absorption and emission spectra -

photo luminescence spectrum - optical spectroscopy - linear and nonlinear optical

spectroscopy.

UNIT III SYNTHESIS OF NANOSTRUCTURE MATERIALS: 9

Gas phase condensation – Vacuum deposition -Physical vapor deposition (PVD) -

chemical vapor deposition (CVD) – laser ablation- Sol-Gel- Ball milling –Electro

deposition- electroless deposition – spray pyrolysis – plasma based synthesis process

(PSP) - hydrothermal synthesis

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UNIT IV CHARACTERIZATION: 9

Principle and working of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning tunneling
microscopy (STM) - near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy – Principle of

Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) – applications to nanostructures –

nanomechanical characterization – nanoindentation

UNIT V NANOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: 9

Applications of nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanotubes and nanowires for

nanodevice fabrication – Single electron transistors, coulomb blockade effects in ultrasmall metallic
tunnel junctions - nanoparticles based solar cells and quantum dots

based white LEDs – CNT based transistors – principle of dip pen lithography.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. “Nanotechnology” G. Timp. Editor, AIP press, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999

2. “Nanostructured materials and nanotechnology’’, Concise Edition, Editor:- Hari

Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, USA (2002).

3. “Hand book of Nanostructured Materials and Technology’’, Vol.1-5, Editor:-

Hari Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, USA (2000).

4. “Hand book of Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology (The Electrical

Engineering handbook series), Kluwer Publishers, 2002

5. “Sol-Gel Science”, C.J. Brinker and G.W. Scherrer, Academic Press, Boston

(1994).

6. Nanoscale characterization of surfaces & interfaces, N John Dinardo, Weinheim

Cambridge: Wiley-VCH, 2nd ed., 2000.

ML 9006 NANOMATERIALS: PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION L T P C

AIM:

To introduce the basic aspects of preparation of nanomaterials and their related

characterization techniques.

OBJECTIVES:

1 .To make the students understand the principle involved in preparation and

characterization of nanostructures.

2. To teach the principle and fabrication of nanodevices.

UNIT I BASIC PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLES: 9

Size effect and properties of nanoparticles - particle size - particle shape - particle

density - melting point, surface tension, wettability - specific surface area and pore

size – Reason for change in optical properties, electrical properties, and mechanical

properties - advantages

UNIT II NANOTUBES: 9

Single walled and Multi walled Nanotubes (SWNT and MWNT) - synthesis and

purification - synthesis of carbon nanotubes by pyrolysis techniques - arc-discharge

method - nanotube properties – Nanowires – methods of preparation of nanowires –

VLS mechanism

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UNIT III NANOWIRES AND NANOFIBERS: 9

Semiconductor and oxide nanowires –preparation –solvothermal – electrochemical –

PVD –Pulse laser deposition – template method (qualitative)- nanofibers –electro

spinning technique

UNIT IV CHARACTERIZATION: 9

Nano SEM - Scanning Conducting microscopy (SCM) - near-field Scanning Optical

Microscopy - High-resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM)- Absorption

and emission spectra – PL spectrum - single nanoparticle characterization –Scanning

UNIT V NANODEVICES: 9

Magnetic storage: magnetic quantum well; magnetic dots - magnetic date storage -

high density quantized magnetic disks - magnetic super lattices – MRAMS - MTJs

using nanoscale tunneling junctions – nanomaterial sensors

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. “Nanoparticle Technology Handbook”, Masuo Hosokawa, Kiyoshi Nogi, Makio

Naito, Toyokazu Yokoyama, Elsevier Publishers (2007).

2. “Nanomaterials Synthesis, properties and applications”, Editor:- A.S Edelstein,

IOP Publishing, UK (1996).

3. “Nanostructured materials and nanotechnology’’, Concise Edition, Editor:- Hari

Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, USA (2002).

4. “Hand book of Nanostructured Materials and Technology’’, Vol.1-5, Editor:- Hari

Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, USA (2000).

5. “Carbon nanotubes: preparation and properties”, Editor: - T.W. Ebbesen, CRC

Press, USA (1997).

6. Zhon Ling Wang, Characterization of nanophase materials, ISBN: 3527298371,

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH (2000)