Title
Comparative performance of different warm mix asphalt technologies under the influence of high aircraft tire pressure and temperature
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Applied Research Associates
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Ltd
Abstract
Warm mix asphalt (WMA) technologies allow the production and placement of asphalt concrete materials at a lower temperature than the traditional hot mix asphalt (HMA). These materials simultaneously reduce the production fuel costs, increase the available hauling distance, lengthen the paving season, are eco-friendly, and ensure safer working conditions. Airport authorities can use such materials for construction applications to minimize the downtime and user-delay costs. However, the existing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) construction specifications do not provide guidance on the implementation of such technologies, especially under the conditions created by aircraft with high tire pressure. To this end, the FAA National Airport Pavement and Materials Research Center (NAPMRC) conducted accelerated pavement tests as part of Test Cycle 1 (TC-1) to study the application potential of WMA (using chemical additive) on airport pavements. TC-1 results showed WMA performance was comparable to P-401 HMA performance in rutting. Test Cycle 2 (TC-2) study investigated the rutting performance of chemical, organic, and hybrid additive-based warm mixes alongside an FAA specification P-401 HMA counterpart. Four different test lanes were constructed accordingly in the outdoor area of NAPMRC, each encompassing three different test sections. Using the sixth-generation airport heavy vehicle simulator (HVS-A), sections on the north side of the test lanes were trafficked with 61.3 kips (272.7 kN) moving wheel load at a controlled temperature of 120°F (48.9°C). The chemical additive-based warm mix appeared to exhibit comparable performance to the HMA. A laboratory characterization effort also seemed to corroborate the rutting observations from traffic tests.
Start page
657
End page
669
Volume
2675
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería aeroespacial
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116602958
Source
Transportation Research Record
ISSN of the container
03611981
Sponsor(s)
The authors would also like to acknowledge the support of Murphy Flynn, Wilfredo Villafane, Matthew Brynick (FAA), Peter Millar (Dynatest), Khaled Hamad, Dennis Bataille, and The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The work described in this paper was supported by the FAA Airport Technology Research and Development Branch.
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