A380 PAVEMENT EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM - RIGID PHASE

The paper describes several experiments on rigid pavements at the Toulouse Blagnac airport, which are tested with heavy aircraft landing gear simulator developed by Airbus S.A.S. The main contributors of this program are Airbus, the French Civil Aviation Administration (STBA) and the French Road and Bridges Laboratory (LCPC). The first part of the program (1998 - 2000) deals with bituminous pavement. In 2001-2002-2003, the program has focused on Rigid tests. The main aim has been therefore to improve the understanding of the stresses applied to a cement concrete pavement, under aeronautical loads, in order to underscore the influence of the loading parameters (thermal and dynamic) and of the pavement design parameters. The two main targets are to provide comparative experimental data between different aircraft landing gears, considering especially the future Airbus A380, and to provide full-scale data towards a better understanding of rigid pavement behavior in order to contribute to the research program for renewing airport pavement design methods started in 1999 by both STBA and LCPC. There are two different experiments described in this paper.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  World Road Association (PIARC)

  La Grande Arche, Paroi Nord, Niveau 5
  F-92055 La Defense Cedex,   France 
• Authors:
  • Fabre, C
  • Manoury, N
  • Balay, J-M
• Conference:
  • The XXIInd PIARC World Road Congress
  • Location: Durban, South Africa
  • Date: 2003-10-19 to 2003-10-25
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Bituminous pavements; Cement; Concrete pavements; Data collection; Dynamics; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Rigid pavements; Thermal analysis
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Highways; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00987844
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 3 2005 12:00AM