An Alternative Proposal for Reporting the Bearing Capacity of Flexible Airfield Pavements

Abstract

Structural classification of airfield pavements has always been of great importance for the establishment of a comprehensive airfield pavement management system. As the use of a simple and reliable classification procedure can significantly help the airport authorities to monitor the performance of their pavement(s) and plan an effective maintenance program, the existence of a structural classification procedure that can classify, check and estimate the pavement bearing capacity on a long-term basis could be a useful tool. In addition to this, the procedure presented in this work can easily co-operate with modem analytical design and evaluation procedures, in contrast to classical methods used for the structural classification of airfield pavements.

Keywords:

• Pavement classification
• analytical evaluation
• pavement management
• bearing capacity