AN AIRFIELD PERFORMANCE BASED OVERLAY CONTRACT (CASEMENT AERODROME, BALDONNELL, CO. DUBLIN)

Material design was one of the many challenging aspects of the contract at Baldonnell airfield, located in West County Dublin. The materials which comprised of a Crack Relief layer and a surface course of a Polymer modified asphalt (PMA) were both new to the contractor and encompassed many performance requirements in accordance with both ASTM, and CEN standards. The materials were new to the industry in Ireland and as a result experience was limited. This paper is primarily concerned with the design of the PMA which was carried out in two stages. Stage 1 - Volumetric Mix design which involved the determination of the optimum binder content using the more traditional Marshall criteria. Stage 2 - Mix performance design which involved the determination of several performance characteristics of the mix at the optimum binder content, one point below and two points above. Such criteria included Indirect Tensile Strength, Resilient Modulus and Dynamic creep testing. In order to illustrate the advantage of using a polymer-modified binder, some of the performance testing was repeated using a penetration grade bitumen. The paper presents and discusses the results for this contract whilst also outlining differences in performance with the use of a penetration grade bitumen. For the covering abstract see ITRD E121480.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9080288446
• Corporate Authors:

  FOUNDATION EURASPHALT

  PO BOX 255
  BREUKELEN,     3620 AG
• Authors:
  • WALSH, G P
  • LOWE, A J
  • HEARNS, D M
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 12-21
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD EURASPHALT AND EUROBITUME CONGRESS HELD VIENNA, MAY 2004
  • Volume: 1
  • Publisher: FOUNDATION EURASPHALT

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Airports; Bitumen; Conferences; Deformation; Durability; Mix design; Polymers; Strength of materials
• ITRD Terms: 1037: Airport; 4963: Bitumen; 8525: Conference; 5595: Deformation; 5910: Durability; 4714: Mix design; 7482: Polymer; 1038: Runway; 5544: Strength (mater)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00980806
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 90-802884-4-6
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 3 2004 12:00AM