Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) Technologies for Use in Airport Pavements

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently does not allow use of warm mix asphalt (WMA) on Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funded airport runway and taxiway pavement projects due to the lack of pavement performance data under heavy aircraft loads on WMA. FAA’s National Airport Pavement and Materials Research Center (NAPMRC) was established to evaluate performance of new asphalt material technologies under heavy aircraft loading at high pavement temperatures. As part of Test Cycle 2 (TC2), six test lanes were constructed – four outdoors and two indoors, each encompassing three different test sections. In outdoor lanes, three different WMA additives (chemical, waxy, and hybrid) were used in Lanes 2, 3, and 4 respectively. Lane-1 is the control section with FAA standard P401 specification hot mix asphalt (HMA). Heavy weight deflectometer (HWD) tests were performed on the constructed test lanes to characterize the pavements. Extensive laboratory tests are planned on WMA’s and HMA (field cores and loose mixes). The test lanes will be subjected to accelerated pavement tests (APT) using custom designed airport heavy vehicle simulator (HVS-A) to study rutting performance (at high pavement temperatures) and fatigue behavior. This paper will present construction of test lanes, asphalt mix designs, results from HWD tests on test lanes, and results from response tests on test lanes.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55236-7
• Record URL:
  • https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-55236-7_23
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  • © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
• Authors:
  • Garg, Navneet
  • Kazmee, Hasan
  • Ricalde, Lia
• Conference:
  • 6th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing
  • Location: Nantes , France
  • Date: 2022-4-4 to 2022-4-6
• Publication Date: 2020

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 218-227
• Monograph Title: Accelerated Pavement Testing to Transport Infrastructure Innovation : Proceedings of 6th APT Conference
• Serial:
  • Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 96
  • Publisher: Springer Singapore
  • ISSN: 2366-2557
  • EISSN: 2366-2565
  • Serial URL: https://www.springer.com/series/15087

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accelerated tests; Airport runways; Heavy vehicles; Mix design; Test tracks; Warm mix paving mixtures
• Identifier Terms: National Airport Pavement and Materials Research Center
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01878183
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783030552350
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 2023 1:06PM