ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES: CONFINED BASES FOR AIRPORT PAVEMENTS. FINAL REPORT

Airports for light aircraft must often be built in areas where base course material is inadequate or economically unavailable. Sand grids may provide an economical solution in these cases. Previous work with sand grids has identified optimum grid-cell geometry based on ultimate bearing capacity. Past observations also suggest the nature of sand-grid behavior for small stresses and strains. From these a model was formulated for analyzing the performance of sand grids in pavement systems and spot-checked using field data from a full-scale, accelerated-traffic sand-grid test section.

• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station

  Geotechnical Laboratory, 3909 Halls Ferry Road
  Vicksburg, MS  United States  39180-6199

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Authors:
  • Potter, J C
  • Lambe, P C
• Publication Date: 1986-9

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 94 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Base course (Pavements); Bearing capacity; Construction management; Mathematical models; Performance
• Old TRIS Terms: Sand grids
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00461686
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/FAA/PM-86/9
• Contract Numbers: IA DTFA01-83-Y-30606
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1987 12:00AM