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Introduction
• http://www.chet-aero.com/download/software.php
• http://www.airtech.tc.faa.gov/naptf/download/index1.asp
• Repetition of load
• Distribution of traffic
– PCA method
Traffic volume
AC 150/5320-6D
Equivalent Single Wheel Load (ESWL)
AC 150/5320-6D
AC 150/5320-6D
Increased Loading Gear Complexity
Loading Gear Design
Aircraft Grew in Size
Gross Aircraft Weight
Individual Wheel Load (lbs) Gross Aircraft Weight
Equivalent Single Wheel Load
A New Design Procedure Needed
Efforts for New Design Procedure
Efforts for New Design Procedure
Design Procedure
Final design: 16,241 annual departures of a dual wheel aircraft weighing 190,500lbs
Typical Design Section of Runway
Pavement
FAA Flexible Pavement Design
- CBR Method
Base Course
12-Wheel Failure
1.2 Alpha = 0.23 log C + 0.15
12-Wheel Nonfailure
50-kip Single Wheel Failure
30-kip Single Wheel Failure Single Wheel
1.0 30-kip Single Wheel Nonfailure
Load Repetition Factor, Alpha
Dual-Tandem Failure
Twin Tandem
0.8
12 Wheels
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.0
1.0E+00 1.0E+01 1.0E+02 1.0E+03 1.0E+04 1.0E+05
Hayhoe (2005)
Selection of Design CBR Value
100,000 108
150,000 110
200,000 112
Using Subgrade
CBR to find total
pavement thickness
(23 in. in this
example)
Subbase
Thickness
Using Subbase
CBR to find: the
combined thickness
of HMA and base
course needed over
a 20 CBR subbase
is 9.2 in.
Subbase thickness
= 23-9.2 =13.8 in.
(14-in)
Design Pavement Sections
3500
2500
1500
750
250
50
20
Frost penetration
40
40.8
60
inches
80
Meters
100
120
140
160
Strength at 28 days
(MN/m3)
Effect of Subbase on K
- Bank-Run Sand & Gravel (PI<6)
k on top of subbase (lb/in3)
(MN/m3)
Effect of
Subbase
on K
- Stabilized
Subbase
Design Curves – Single Wheel Gear
• Subgrade soil is CL
• MR = 650 psi
Design Steps
1/ 4
⎡ Eh 3
⎤
l=⎢
⎣12 1(− ν 2
k)⎥
⎦
Dimensions and Spacing of Steel Dowels
Amount of Reinforcement for Reinforced
Concrete Pavements
3.7 L Lt
As =
fs
• LEDFAA 1.3