DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS RIGID AIRFIELD DESIGN PROCEDURES. PROCEEDINGS, 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCRETE PAVEMENT DESIGN AND REHABILITATION, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, APRIL 18-20, 1989

In 1979 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers introduced an airfield design manual that included design procedures for plain, reinforced, continuously reinforced, steel fiber reinforced, and prestressed concrete airfield pavements. In the intervening ten years additional work has led to changes in some of these procedures and to preparation of two updated design manuals published in 1988. This paper reviews the basis for these changes. Some of the topics covered include revised fatigue relationships for plain and steel fiber reinforced concrete pavements, acceptance of layered elastic design procedures as an alternative to Westergaard procedures, changes to thickness design for continuously reinforced concrete pavements, and revisions to the jointing criteria for steel fiber reinforced concrete pavements. Some work that has not progressed to the point to allow its inclusion in the 1988 manuals and the current status of changes to prestressed and overlay pavement design are presented.

• Corporate Authors:

  Purdue University

  School of Civil Engineering, 550 Stadium Mall Drive
  West Lafeyette, IN  United States  47907

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Authors:
  • Rollings, R S
• Publication Date: 1989-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 405-418
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Purdue University
  • Publisher: Purdue University

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Concrete pavements; Continuously reinforced concrete pavements; Design methods; Fiber reinforced concrete; Mechanical elasticity; Mechanical fatigue; Pavement design; Pavement overlays; Prestressed concrete; Reinforced concrete pavements; Rigid pavements; Thickness
• Old TRIS Terms: Aprons; Elastic layered method; Thickness design
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486353
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-89-208, 3C1B1144
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-87-C-00140
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM