Feasibility of Sidewalk Along the Ambala Shimla National Highway No 5 at Shoghi Shimla Himachal Pradesh: design and analysis

Abstract

From several years Shoghi is in great need of a parking facility and facility for pedestrians to walk upon. Our project ‘Design of sidewalk at Shoghi’ is a project that will not only addresses to these problems but also challenges us to apply our knowledge gained by us in the previous year’s along with gaining of on-site work experience. In the first chapter of this report we have given a brief introduction about Shoghi, its problems and possible solutions we have tried to find out. Also here we have discussed about the code IRC-103-1988 and which we have followed thus making the guidelines from the code as our base for the project. The second chapter gives us the details of the surveys which were performed by us. We have conducted both photographic and total station survey. Photographic survey has given us the fair idea of the problems faced by pedestrians and from the total station survey we collected data points that helped us to make a layout of the 1.1km long stretch. In the third chapter the procedure for making the layout of the stretch by the use of software’s likes AutoCAD and MS-Excel has been provided. The layouts laid the foundation of the designing part of the project where we plotted the sidewalk as well as came to know about the types of supports by allocation of concrete footings along the side walk. The fourth chapter of this report contains the designing and analysis of the sections chosen by us to serve as the sidewalk using STAAD.Pro and MACROS feature of MS-Excel. Initially, upto Cross-Section No.73 we designed steel sidewalk and for the rest of the stretch we used concrete sidewalk.