OPERATIONAL LIFE OF AIRPORT PAVEMENTS

The objective of the study was to determine whether the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards used to determine the appropriate thickness for hot mix asphalt and concrete airfield pavements are in accordance with the FAA standard for a 20-year life requirement. FAA airport pavement design standards, and related references, including some unpublished FAA technical reports and full-scale test results, were reviewed. The effects of many parameters, directly used in the failure model and indirectly used through the pavement response model, on the pavement structural life were analyzed. A sensitive analysis of parameters on pavement structural life was used to quantitatively evaluate the effects of the most important parameters in different airport pavement design procedures. Some full-scale test results were used to support the findings in the analysis. Based on the definition adopted in this report, the airport pavements designed following AC 150/5320-6D have sufficient thickness to provide a 20-year structural life.

• Record URL:
  http://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/DesktopModules/FlexNews/DownloadHandler.ashx?id=71774832-2508-43cb-b09b-8327adf9f6fe&f=Operational_Life.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • The document is currently available on CD-ROM and paper only.
• Corporate Authors:

  Galaxy Scientific Corporation

  2500 English Creek Avenue, Building 11
  Egg Harbor, NJ  United States  08234-5562

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Authors:
  • Garg, N
  • Guo, E
  • McQueen, R
• Publication Date: 2004-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 117 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport operations; Hot mix asphalt; Pavements; Standards; Thickness
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00989537
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/FAA/AR-04/46
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 12 2005 12:00AM