Airport Flexible Pavement Evaluations: As a Reflection of Assessing Landing Fee

This paper is a reflection of the usual methodologies for the evaluation of airport pavement structures since 1978. It considers the speed up evolution of wide body aircraft and their ability to damage the pavements. The paper also describes the dependence of the Brazilian engineers in developing criterion and methodologies, destructive and non destructive, concurrent with imported experiences of the United State of America Corp of Engineers (USACE). The paper reports how non destructive evaluations in Brazilian airports with laser beam equipment, high load penetrometers, and Benkelman beams analyze pavement structure damage. Computational techniques consider homogeneous pavement layers in order to estimate the elasticity module in deflection basins of the aircraft landing gear configuration and the limits of stress and strains at the bottom of the asphalt layers plus compression at the top of the subgrade using the theory of elasticity, have to be analyzed with other outlined conditions. Finally, the paper declines a simple and objective way to evaluate the aircraft damage, using the concepts of Aircraft Classification Number (CAN) and Pavement Classification Number PCN), which correlates the USACE expression, for pavement rupture, with the assessing landing fee in order to avoid pavement premature deterioration and initial useless investments, inside the concept of Airport Pavement Management System.

  • Corporate Authors:

    Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

    Rua da Consolacao, 930
    , Sao Paulo  Brazil 

    Brazilian Pavement Association

    Miguel Couto 105, Sobrelojas 204 e 205
    Rio de Janiero, CEP 20070-030,   Brazil 
  • Authors:
    • Filho, Silvio Rodrigues
    • Sarmento, Andreia
  • Conference:
  • Publication Date: 2003

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: CD-ROM
  • Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 14p
  • Monograph Title: 2003 International Conference. Airports: Planning, Infrastructure & Environment

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01144311
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 01-034
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Nov 17 2009 2:58PM