Title
Rutting Evaluation of Hot and Warm Mix Asphalt Concrete under High Aircraft Tire Pressure and Temperature at National Airport Pavement and Materials Research Center
Date Issued
01 December 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Garg N.
Kazmee H.
Parsons T.
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Ltd
Abstract
The aircraft industry’s propensity to increase the range of aircraft results in increased gross weight and tire pressure. Therefore, performance assessment of airfield asphalt concrete mixes under such high tire pressure and extreme environmental exposure becomes imperative for sustainable design implementation. Moreover, a lack of scientific information on the field performance has been a major roadblock in the adoption of green technologies like warm mix asphalt (WMA). An accelerated pavement testing study was undertaken at the Federal Aviation Administration’s National Airport Pavement and Materials Research Center to evaluate the rutting performance of hot and warm asphalt mixes at two different binder grades. Six test lanes were constructed – four outdoors and two indoors, each encompassing three different test sections. The constructed test sections were subjected to different combinations of tire pressure, temperature, and environmental exposure using a custom-designed airport heavy vehicle simulator. Both field performance and laboratory characterization tests indicated that WMA exhibited comparable performance to hot mix asphalt. Environmental aging was found to be conducive to the curing and enhanced rutting performance of polymer-modified WMA.
Start page
117
End page
127
Volume
2672
Issue
23
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de la construcción Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85053425448
Source
Transportation Research Record
ISSN of the container
03611981
Sponsor(s)
The work described in this paper was supported by the FAA Airport Technology Research and Development Branch. The authors acknowledge the support of Murphy Flynn and Wilfredo Villafane of FAA, David Traverzo, Henry Fermin, Jeffery Stein, Dennis Bataille, Monir Haggag, and Matthew Willson of Systems Research and Applications Corporation (CSRA), John Gerke, Christopher Tomlinson, and Russell Knieriem of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), and Peter Millar of Dynatest for their support during the construction and testing of pavements.
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