Incorporation of Reliability into Airport Pavement Design Using Backcalculated Pavement Layer Moduli

Currently, several variations of Falling or Heavy Weight Deflectometer (F/HWD) equipment exist on the market. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF) Round-Up project provided an opportunity to examine different market available F/HWD equipment. This paper presents a case study of how the uncertainty of backcalculated in-situ moduli can be assessed and incorporated in the FAA Rigid and Flexible Iterative Elastic Layer Design (FAARFIELD) design procedure to determine appropriate pavement thicknesses. The mean values and standard deviations of backcalculated layer moduli were computed and then input into FAARFIELD using Rosenblueth’s procedure to predict the reliability of a 20-year pavement design performance. The research shows that the proposed procedure can be used as an alternative decision-making tool for airport engineers to more realistically predict pavement life using F/HWD data.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784480953.002
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Ji, Richard
  • Wang, Zilong
  • Sabahfar, Nassim
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Highway Pavements and Airfield Technology 2017
  • Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania, United States
  • Date: 2017-8-27 to 2017-8-30
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 15-26
• Monograph Title: Airfield and Highway Pavements 2017: Airfield Pavement Technology and Safety

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Backcalculation; Falling weight deflectometers; Mathematical prediction; Pavement design; Service life
• Identifier Terms: FAARFIELD (Computer program); National Airport Pavement Test Facility
• Uncontrolled Terms: Layer moduli; Pavement thickness
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01690566
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784480953
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Dec 31 2018 10:00PM