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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Civil Engineering |
| Grao en Tecnoloxía da Enxeñaría Civil |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Camiños | Code | 632G02033 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Basic concepts | Definition of road. Types of road. Elements of the road. Infrastructure and superstructure (the basic concepts of drainage, signalling, beaconing, safeguarding, etc are introduced in this section) |
| 2. Traffic engineering | Basic traffic characteristics (volume, flow rate, speed and density). Traffic studies. Capacity and level of service (LOS) under uninterrupted flow (according to HCM 2010 updated to 6TH Edition). |
| 3. Road design | Basic design criteria. Horizontal and vertical alignment. General recommendations. Cross sectional elements. |
| 4. Earthworks | Earthworks construction. Load-bearing capacity. Soil stabilization. |
| 5. Road pavements | Pavement structure. Binders. Aggregates. Granular layers. Treated layers for bases and subbases. Surface treatments. Bituminous mixtures. Concrete pavements. Pavement design according to standard 6.1-IC. Surface characteristics. Conservation. |
| 6 y 7. Transport | Introduction. Road transport. Air transport. |
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