Airport Operation and Maintenance
The following documents will be of interest to participants in the Airport Operation and Maintenance Technical Design Challenge:
- Airport Pavement Design & Evaluation (AC 150/5320-6D & changes)
Discusses many facets of pavement
- Airport Pavement Design & Evaluation (AC 150/5320-6D & changes)
- Offpeak Construction of Airport Pavements Using Hot-Mix Asphalt (AC 150/5370-13)
Construction Techniques in Section 9.
- Offpeak Construction of Airport Pavements Using Hot-Mix Asphalt (AC 150/5370-13)
- Use of Nondestructive Testing in the Evaluation of Airport Pavement (AC 150/5370-11A)
Equipment and procedures for testing pavement.
- Use of Nondestructive Testing in the Evaluation of Airport Pavement (AC 150/5370-11A)
- Guidelines & Procedures for Maintenance of Airport Pavements (AC 150/5380-6A)
Types of pavement distress and recommended corrective actions during preventive and remedial maintenance.
- Guidelines & Procedures for Maintenance of Airport Pavements (AC 150/5380-6A)
- Airport Pavement Management Program (AC 150/5380-7A)
Decision-making regarding pavement maintenance and rehabilitation.
- Airport Pavement Management Program (AC 150/5380-7A)
- Handbook for Identification of Alkali-Silica Reactivity in Airfield Pavements (AC 150/5380-8)
Guidance on understanding, identifying, preventing, and mitigating alkali-silica reactivity (ASR) in airfield pavements.
- Handbook for Identification of Alkali-Silica Reactivity in Airfield Pavements (AC 150/5380-8)
WEBSITES
- Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program
SMS for Airports, Volume 1: Overview. Volume 2 is expected to be released in Fall 2008.
- Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program
- Airfield Asphalt Pavement Technology Program
Info on AAPTP, whose mission is to deliver applied research on asphalt airfield pavements that provides high-quality, cost-effective asphalt pavements. Research projects focus on improving the quality of hot mix asphalt (HMA), reducing costs, improving safety, and providing training on HMA materials.
- Airfield Asphalt Pavement Technology Program
- Innovative Pavement Research Foundation
Info on IPRF, whose mission is to provide a unified means of building resources, developing strategies, and implementing programs to address concrete pavement research, technology advancement and transfer, and public education on the inherent economic efficiencies, safety, and quality-of-life advantages of portland cement concrete pavements for highways, streets, roads, and airports.