Civil Engineering - Highway Engineering - Discussion

Acceptable minimum thickness for base is 150mm not 10, even though it depends on the standard and spec of which country.

The minimum thickness base course range from 10cm-30cm.

Surface course ---> 25 - 50mm.
Binder course ---> 50 - 100mm.
Base course ---> 100 - 300mm.
Sub base course ---> 100 - 300mm.
Subgrade ---> 150 - 300mm.

Thickness of the base ranges from 10cm - 30cm.
Here the question asked is minimum thickness,
So, The answer is 10cm.

The thickness of the base ranges from 15- 30cm. Not only 10cm.

10 cm for Base course and 15 cm for Sub-base Course.

Sub-base materials comprise natural sand, gravel, laterite, brick metal, crushed stone or combinations thereof meeting the prescribed grading and physical requirements. The sub-base material should have a minimum CBR of 20 % and 30 % for traffic upto 2 msa and traffic exceeding 2 msa respectively. Sub-base usually consist of granular or WBM and the thickness should not be less than 150 mm for design traffic less than 10 msa and 200 mm for design traffic of 1:0 msa and above. Base The recommended designs are for unbounded granular bases which comprise conventional water bound macadam (WBM) or wet mix macadam (WMM) or equivalent confirming to MOST specifications. The materials should be of good quality with minimum thickness of 225 mm for traffic up to 2 msa an 150 mm for traffic exceeding 2 msa. Bituminous surfacing The surfacing consists of a wearing course or a binder course plus wearing course.

The most commonly used wearing courses are surface dressing, open graded premix carpet, mix seal surfacing, semi-dense bituminous concrete and bituminous concrete. For binder course, MOST specifies, it is desirable to use bituminous macadam (BM) for traffic upto o 5 msa and dense bituminous macadam (DBM) for traffic more than 5 msa.

Surface-10cm.
Base- 200mm to 300mm.
Sub-base-75mm to 150mm.
Subgrade -depth 600mm to the water level.

Given answer is correct.

Surface course ---> 25 - 50mm.
Binder course ---> 50 - 100mm.
Base course ---> 100 - 300mm.
Sub base course ---> 100 - 300mm.
Subgrade ---> 150 - 300mm.

It should be 15cm.