• FARAZ HASAN KHAN
• Kapil Tiwari

The flexible pavements encompass different layers made of different materials and provide strength to the pavement along with flexing. The objective of current research is to investigate the effect of different layer thicknesses on strength of flexible pavement using techniques of Finite Element Analysis. The modeling and structural analysis is conducted using the ANSYS simulation package. The normal stress, shear stress, and deformation plots are generated for the pavement. From the FEA simulation, the critical regions of high stresses and deformation-induced on the flexible pavement are identified. The optimization results have shown that shear stress induced on flexible pavement reduces with an increase in subgrade layer thickness. The shear stress also reduces with an increase in base layer thickness as well.

Pavement, strength, optimization

"Structural analysis of flexible pavement using FEA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.a822-a826, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206093.pdf

"Structural analysis of flexible pavement using FEA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppa822-a826, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206093.pdf