Spain can boast of having a very large concrete pavement area, amounting to more than 90 percent in over 35 civil airfields and 5 military air bases. Technical details, construction methods and performance of these pavements are analysed, together with their evolution in the latest projects which have started in...
Spanish Experience with Concrete Pavements for Airports
Application of Newly Developed Prestressed Concrete Pavement Technology in Japanese Airports
Many researches on prestressed concrete (PC) pavements have been conducted. The applicability of a class Ill PC slab, in which cracking at the bottom of the slab is permitted, was confirmed for airport pavements. A new type of PC precast slab pavement with new jointing systems was developed. A new...
Enlargement Works at the Airport of Liege (Belgium)
The airport of LiOge in Belgium has been the subject of major works for several yearjSince the country was regionalized a few years ago, the Wlloon Region has invested over 1,5 milliard Bel g ian francs. Several new buildings have already been constructed.rThe most spectacular wor, however,lTs the enlargement of...
A New Assortment of Cement (CD 40-A) Meant for Concretes for Roads, Motorways and Airport Runways
The use of CD 40-A cement eliminates the classical procedures of measuring plastifying and air entraining additives at the preparation on site of the road concrete. The article presents the main characteristics of CD 40-A and the results of laboratory tests carried out to establish the influence of this type...
Fine-Grained (Sand) Concrete for the Construction of Cement Concrete Road and Airfield Pavements
The problem of using fine-grained (sand) concrete instead of the "classic one in the construction of road and airfield pavements is analysed. In sand concrete the coarse aggregate, crushed stone or gravel, are substituted by natural sand or a blend of natural sand and screenings 0.5 (10) mm. The use...
New Standards in the Construction of Aircraft Movement Areas
Airport runways and other aircraft movement areas are among today's most important infrastructure elements. The paper gives an introduction to general aspects of design and construction of concrete airport pavements, emphasizing the advantages of the two-course "wet on wet" placement technique. The above mentioned aspects are illustrated by the description...
Temperature Effects on the Concrete Pavement of the Marco Polo Airport of Venice
This paper examines the results of temperature and strain measurements obtained using strain gauges installed in the concrete pavement of the aircraft parking area of the "Marco Polo" international airport of Venice. The purpose was to control the design assumptions and models and to assess the long term behaviour of...
The Use of Non Destructive Testing and Backcalculation of Moduli in the Rehabilitation Project of the Runway of the Otopeni Airport at Bucarest (Romania)
Results of a rehabilitation project for the runway nr.1 of the Otopeni Airport at Bucarest by using the Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD). The paper describes how the deflection basin produced by the FWD can be used to characterize the pavement behaviour and to backcalculate the Young modulus (E) of the...
6th International Symposium on Concrete Roads 1990 Madrid Spain
Session Paper Indexes, Opening Addresses, General Reports, Oral Contributions and Closings from the 6th International Symposium on Concrete Roads 1990 Madrid Spain
Setting New Standards in the Construction of Flight Operation Areas in MUC 2
The construction of the International Airport MUC 2 and especiallyof the flight operation areas in -for road designers- gigantic dimensions and short time-limit was a unique chance for the ex-perts to search for and find newstandards for tech-nique, economy and quality by an innovative fur-ther development of proven equipment and...
Rapid Reconstruction of Concrete Slabs on Airfield Runways
The rapid reconstruction of concrete slabs on airfield runways is a technology presented to airports operation authorities in order to strictly shorten the reparation period when the runway is unpracticable. The French airports and airbases engineering services proceeded with two demonstration works on the BORDEAUX and NlMES airports. The reconstruction...
5th International Symposium on Concrete Roads 1986 Aachen Germany
Closing ceremony from 5th International Symposium on Concrete Roads 1986 Aachen Germany