Sep 18, 2017 airport design software supports pavement design and pay reductions for airport pavement projects. This advisory circular provides guidance to the public on the design and evaluation of pavements. Welcome to faa paveair faa paveair is a public, webbased application designed to assist organizations in the evaluation, management, and maintenance of their pavement networks. New faa pavement design software international airport. To avoid typing the airplane list by hand, try copying the above job file to the working directory and opening it in faarfield. It implements advanced design procedures based on layered elastic theory developed under the sponsorship of the federal aviation administration faa. As part of the federal aviation administrations transition to computerbased design procedures, faarfield offers advanced structural and failure prediction models designed to significantly save costs and provide more accurate life predictions for pavement.
New thickness design software, under development by the federal aviation administration faa, incorporates threedimensional finite element 3dfe models for all rigid pavement stress. The new program is called faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design, but is known by its acronym, faarfield. Ac 15053206 covering airport pavement design and evaluation. The airport pavement structural design system apsds software will streamline your runway and taxiway design projects. Icao overloading practice versus airport pavement design.
Civil engineer airfield pavement airport engineering division. The optimization feature gives costeffective and reliable designs. Provides software for pavement design and other airport design projects. Parametric sensitivity analysis for the faas airport. Layered elastic design federal aviation administration is a computer program for airport pavement design which operates based on elastic layer theory. Implementation of rigid pavement thickness design new pavement. Faa pavement standards help protect this investment by ensuring pavements last as long as possible with the least amount of maintenance. Airport construction standards ac 150537010 airports. Paveair is designed to fulfill the requirements of an airport pavement management system as identified in advisory circular ac 15053807b. Icao overloading practice versus airport pavement design life. Participants will need to bring a laptop to complete design workshops and will be provided with relevant faa advisory circulars and airfield pavement design tools. One of the major observed failure modes for rigid pavements, topdown cracking, is poorly accounted for in the current faarfield rigid pavement design procedure. Federal aviation administration rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design faarfield is the standard faa airport pavement thickness design program.
Pavement modeling and design implementation of rigid pavement thickness design new pavement ledfaa is a computer program which is based on layered elastic analysis lea and fullscale test data. May 01, 2002 implementation of rigid pavement thickness design new pavement ledfaa is a computer program which is based on layered elastic analysis lea and fullscale test data. Ledfaa handles new and overlay design of both flexible and rigid pavements. Federal aviation administration s faa advisory circular ac 150532016 since 1995. Fedfaa, finite element design federal aviation administration, is a computer program for both airport rigid and flexible pavement thickness design. Airport pavement technical workshop asphalt institute. Dotfaaar9747 development of advanced computational models. The paper presents a case study describing the design of airfield pavements for a major airport using both the faarfield and apsds aircraft pavement structural design system procedures developed. It implements both layered elastic based and 3d finite elementbased design procedures developed under the sponsorship of the federal aviation administration faa for new and overlay design of flexible and rigid pavements. Nike3d a generalpurpose, threedimensional finite element method 3dfem computer program is the selected engine for critical stress calculation for airport rigid pavement design.
Pdf airfield pavement design for a major airport using. Integration of faa administration federal aviation. Previous versions of airport design software airports. Developing rigid airport pavement multipleslab response. Simplified and moved guidance on economic analysis to chapter 1. Comfaa, as introduced in version a of ac 15053355, is capable of.
Ac 15053206f, airport pavement design and evaluations, 10. New faa pavement design software transportation research board. Rigid pavement design part i november 7, 2012 flexural strength requirements ac 15053206e airport pavement design and evaluation p. As part of the federal aviation administration s transition to computerbased design procedures, faarfield offers advanced structural and failure prediction models. Faa paveair is a public, webbased application designed to assist organizations in the evaluation, management, and maintenance of their pavement networks. Federal aviation administrations faa advisory circular ac 150532016 since 1995. This chapter presents pavement mechanistic design procedures that are implemented in the faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layer. Faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design, known as faarfield, is a new software package for airport pavement thickness design. Net application compatible with all existing versions of. The federal aviation administration s faa new airport pavement thickness design program, faarfield faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design, is expected to supersede ledfaa 1. This software was designed by faa and its final version was presented in 2004 that is used to design rigid and flexible airport pavement. Ability to process a file in a batch mode can process any number of deflection records at a time exports batch calculation results into. Ledfaa developed out of a 1993 faasponsored feasibility study of layered elastic design led methods for airport pavements. This advisory circular provides guidance to the public on the design and evaluation of pavements used by aircraft at civil airports.
Facilitates flexible and rigid pavement information required in comfaa 3. Ac 15053206f airport pavement design and evaluation. International civil aviation organisation icao and federal aviation administration faa of the usa policies are referred to, as well as guidance documents published by other organisations. Faa research on pavement design and materials for new generation aircraft october 15, 2018 federal aviation administration rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design faarfield is the standard faa airport pavement thickness design program. Goal include geotextilegeogrid material properties into design software 25. Modify specifications for pavement design construction based on full scale testing results. The faa has developed the computer program faa rigid and flexible. The results of this feasibility study demonstrated that the led procedure for flexible asphalt pavements produces pavement designs that are compatible with conventional faa design procedures for existing aircraft types. The pavement thickness design charts nomographs in faa advisory circular. Airfield pavement, airport, design, faa, icao, orientation, runway, windrose. Software and spreadsheets for airfield design chet aero marine.
Purpose the purpose of this study was to develop a new, practical, and implemetable procedure for the structural design of rigid airport pavements. Data entry federal aviation 2 administration faarfield 1. The airport pavement technical workshop will take a detailed look at. The federal aviation administrations faa new airport pavement thickness design program, faarfield faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design. Topics covered include pavement design and evaluation, materials, mix design, construction, preservation and rehabilitation practices, along with innovative pavement technologies for airports. Integration of faa administration federal aviation software. It implements layered elastic theory based design procedures developed under the sponsorship of the federal aviation administration faa for new and overlay design of flexible and rigid pavements.
Ppt faa pavement design powerpoint presentation free. Federal aviation administration rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design faarfield is the new faa airport pavement thickness design program. Finite element modeling for rigid pavement joints, report ii. Faa guidelines and icao design criteria are strictly followed in the design and orientation of the runway. Model development march 1998 final report this document is available to the u. Apsds enhances the complex and demanding task of airport pavement design, construction and maintenance. Design program based pcn evaluation of aircraft pavements. Draft ac 15053206f, airport pavement design and evaluations. Airport design software airports federal aviation administration. The comfaa programme derives its pavement thickness estimation from the.
Faarfield considers the cumulative damage factor cdf in the subgrade for the design of airport pavement layers. Net environment runs under windows xp, vista and win 7 2. Investigation of runway pavement design software and. Airport pavement design and evaluation ac 15053206f overview of changes presented by cindy hirsch, p. The faa released a new version of ac 1505370 10h, from 10g in december 2018. Advances in faa pavement thickness design software. Dotfaaar977 office of aviation research washington, d. Dotfaaar0733 faa finite element design procedure for. Federal aviation administration welcome to faa paveair.
More than half of all airport improvement program funds go toward constructing or rehabilitating runways, taxiways, and aprons. Review of 10 years of concrete airport pavement studies at. Faarfield stands for faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design. Airport design software supports pavement design and pay reductions for airport pavement projects. For rigid pavements, the faa adopted a simplified westergaardtype analysis using the pickett and ray charts. Dotfaaar9747 office of aviation research washington, d. However, one of the limitations of ledfaa for rigid pavements is the lack. Faarfield new faa airport pavement thickness design software. Rigid pavement design ms excel, rigid pavement design manual pdf. Iterative elastic layer design faarfield to assist with pavement. Faa paveair calculates the pci following the procedures defined in astm d5340 standard test method for airport pavement condition index surveys and astm d6433 standard practice for roads and parking lots pavement. Pdf airfield pavement design for a major airport using faarfield. Implementation of rigid pavement thickness design new.
Fedfaa is a computer program for airport pavement thickness design. The federal aviation administrations faa new airport pavement thickness design program, faarfield faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design, is expected to supersede ledfaa 1. Federal aviation administration pavement life 1 typically, pavements on federally funded faa projects are designed for a 20 year. Flexible rigid overlay current version is faarfield 1. The layered elastic procedures, as implemented in the program, are the faa airport pavement thickness design standards. Airport design software federal aviation administration. Available software include faarfield, comfaa, compsys, and other programs.
Software and spreadsheets for airfield design chet aero. The revised ac will make faarfield the faas standard thickness design procedure for both rigid and flexible pavements, including overlays. The following standards are from ac 150537010h, standards for specifying construction of airports. Flexible pavement design july 11, 2012october 2, 20 enter traffic mixture the job file workshop. Dotfaaar9747 development of advanced computational.
Developing rigid airport pavement multipleslab response models for topdown cracking mode using artificial neural networks abstract the federal aviation administration faa has recognized for some time that its current rigid 44 pavement design model, involving a single slab loaded at one edge by a single aircraft gear, is 45 inadequate to account. Advisory circulars all 150 series acs ac 150 53205, surface drainage design. To view the entire ac and the latest errata sheet, select the complete ac link below. Dotfaaar0656 comparative design study for airport pavement. Also added general guidance on how to use 24 faarfield. Airport pavement design and engineering naco, a company of royal haskoningdhv, is recognised for our knowledge of airport pavements and have carried out pavement studies and designs around the globe, in various. Using faarfield the federal aviation administrations faa new airport pavement thickness design program, faarfield faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design, is expected to supersede ledfaa 1.
There is a need to develop and maintain userfriendly software programs that meet current and future faa requirements for airport pavement design, evaluation, construction, maintenance, and management. Sustainable airfield pavement engineering solutions. Bakfaa is the faa software to perform backcalculation of pavement material properties using heavy weight deflectometerfalling weight deflectometer hwdfwd data. After a 10year research and development effort, the federal aviation administration faa is set to debut a new software package for airport pavement thickness design.
Runway design and structural design of an airfield pavement. The federal aviation administrations faas rigid pavement design standard employs the nike3dfaa software to compute critical pavement responses of concrete airport pavement structures. Flexible pavement design international civil aviation. Evaluation of airport flexible pavement hma fatigue using. Our pavement design services range from preliminary to final designs, tender documents, and tendering and bid evaluation. Ac 15053206e, airport pavement design and evaluations, 30. Administration faa research on pavement design and. Oct, 2017 bakfaa is the faa software to perform backcalculation of pavement material properties using heavy weight deflectometerfalling weight deflectometer hwdfwd data.
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