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IQPC Conference

Singapore - October 7th & 8th, 2008

Zip File FAARFIELD Workshop Presentations and Documents

MS PowerPoint File PAVEAIR Presentation


FAA Airport Technology R&D Pavement Working Group Meeting

Atlantic City, NJ - February 2nd, 2005

MS PowerPoint File Alpha Factor Determination for 6-Wheel Gears

Prepared by: Dr. Gordon Hayhoe

Notes:  Minor corrections have been made to the traffic and structural information since the time of the presentation. Preparation of a formal report containing the revised information is in progress.


Report DOT/FAA/AR-04/46 "Operational Life of Airport Pavements"

December, 2004

PDF File Operational Life of Airport Pavements


9th Plenary Meeting of US - Japan Science & Technology Experts Meeting

May 26th, 2004

ZIP File FAA Presentations


2004 FAA Worldwide Airport Technology Transfer Conference

Atlantic City, NJ - April, 2004

ZIP File Track P Papers

ZIP File Track S Papers


NAPTF Construction Status Update

 January 14th, 2004

MS PowerPoint File FAA Airport Pavement Technology Program - Construction Status 2004

Prepared by: Dr. Gordon Hayhoe


NAPTF Construction Status Update

February 13, 2003

MS PowerPoint File FAA Airport Pavement Technology Program - Construction Status 2003

Prepared by: Dr. Gordon Hayhoe

Notes: Presented to the Public Works Group Safety Council


Transportation Research Board - 82nd Annual Meeting

Washington DC - January 14th, 2003

MS PowerPoint File Permanent Deformation Behavior of the Granular Layers Tested at the FAA's National Airport Pavement Test Facility

Prepared by: Navneet Garg, Ph.D.

Notes:  Presented to the Transportation Research Board - 82nd Annual Meeting Session 556.  Sponsored by A2J03 - Committee on Mineral Aggregates.  Session Moderator:  Erol Tutumluer


2002 FAA Airport Technology Transfer Conference

Atlantic City, NJ - May, 2002

PDF File LEAF - A New Layered Elastic Computational Program for FAA Pavement Design and Evaluation Procedures

Authors: Dr. Gordon Hayhoe

PDF File Development of Computer Program to Compute Pavement Thickness

Authors: Izydor Kawa, Dr. Gordon Hayhoe

PDF File Analysis of Falling Weight Deflectometer Tests at Denver International Airport

Authors: Mingyao Dong, Gordon Hayhoe

PDF File Implementation of Rigid Pavement Thickness Design - New Pavement

Authors: Izydor Kawa, Edward Guo, Dr. Gordon Hayhoe, David Brill

PDF File Comparison Between Falling-Weight Deflectometer and Static Deflection Measurements on Flexible Pavements at the NAPTF

Authors: Navneet Garg, Wayne Marsey

PDF File Analysis of NAPTF Traffic Test Data for the First-Year Rigid Pavement Test Items

Authors: Edward Guo, Dr. Gordon Hayhoe, David Brill

PDF File Subgrade Strains Measured in Full-Scale Traffic Tests with Four and Six Wheel Landing Gears

Authors: Dr. Gordon Hayhoe, Navneet Garg

PDF File Development of Material Requirements for Portland Cement Concrete Pavements at the US FAA NAPTF

Authors: Roy McQueen, Jeffrey Rapol, Robert Flynn

PDF File Data Management at the NAPTF

Authors: Charles Teubert, David Brill, Quingge Jia


Report of Strain Gage Verification Tests for the National Airport Pavement Test Facility

March, 2002

PDF File Report of Strain Gage Verification Tests for the National Airport Pavement Test Facility

Submitted by:  Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc. - 5420 Old Orchard Road, Skokie, IL 60077


Asphalt Concrete Strain Responses at High Loads and Low Speeds At the National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF)

October 11th, 2001

PDF File Asphalt Concrete Strain Responses at High Loads and Low Speeds At the National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF)

Authors:  Navneet Garg and Dr. Gordon Hayhoe

Notes:  Results are described from asphalt strain gage measurements made during pavement response tests on the flexible pavement test items at the National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF). Tests were run at various speeds and loads with dual wheel configurations.


Slow-Rolling Response Tests on the Test Pavements at the National Airport Pavement Test Facility

October 11th, 2001

PDF File Slow-Rolling Response Tests on the Test Pavements at the National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF)

Authors:  Dr. Gordon Hayhoe, Robert Cornwell, Navneet Garg

Notes:  Airport pavement thickness design procedures predict a significant amount of interaction between the loads from multiple-wheel and closely spaced multiple-truck landing gear configurations. 


DOT/FAA/AR-TN01/49

September, 2001

PDF File Posttraffic Testing at the National Airport Pavement Test Facility: Test Item MFC

Notes:  The conventional flexible pavement test item on medium-strength subgrade (MFC) exhibited ruts 4 to 6 inches (100 to 150 mm) deep with upheaval outside the traffic lane and asphalt surface (AC) cracking in the wander pattern. A trench was dug to conduct posttraffic investigation into the failure mechanism of the pavement structure


Analysis of Nondestructive Test Data on Flexible Pavements Acquired at the NAPTF

August, 2001

PDF File Analysis of Nondestructive Test Data on Flexible Pavements Acquired at the National Pavement Test Facility

Authors:  Roy McQueen, Wayne Marsey, Jose Arze

Notes:  This paper discusses the evaluation of the NDT and other test data with respect to:

  1. Description of the FAA's new backcalculation software, FAA Backcal.
  2. Linearity in pavement response and backcalculated subgrade modulus with applied HWD force.
  3. Comparison of the stiffness of conventional and stabilized base pavements on different subgrades.
  4. Relationship between in situ California Bearing Ratio and backcalculated subgrade modulus.
  5. The effect of stiffness of underlying layers on backcalculated subgrade modulus.

Verification of Curling in PCC Slabs at the FAA National Airport Pavement Test Facility

August, 2001

PDF File Verification of Curling in PCC Slabs at the FAA National Airport Pavement Test Facility

Authors:  Edward Guo, Wayne Marsey

Notes:  During the testing period from the summer to winter of 1999, heavy weight deflectometer (HWD) tests were routinely conducted on the three Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) test items in the FAA's National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF).


Published Proceeding of the Third ICPT Conference -Volume 2

Beijing, China - April, 1998

PDF File Airport Pavement Roughness with Nighttime Construction

Authors:  Dr. Gordon Hayhoe, Mingyao Dong, Roy McQueen

Notes:  Surface elevation profiles are measured before and after overlay operations on runways at two commercial airports in the USA. Each airport had only one runway. All overlaying was done at night, with the airports opened for normal operations during the day. The profiles were measured with an inertial profiler having software compensation for accelerometer errors. Pavement surface elevations measured with normal surveying rod and level equipment are compared with the profiler elevation measurements for one of the runways.


Porous Portland Cement Concrete: the State of the Art

January, 1981

PDF File Porous Portland Cement Concrete: the State of the Art

Author:  Alfred Monahan - US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Structures Laboratory - Vicksburg, MS 39180


Field Survey and Analysis of Aircraft Distribution on Airport Pavements

February, 1975

PDF File Field Survey and Analysis of Aircraft Distribution on Airport Pavements

Prepared by:  Victor HoSang for the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Soils and Pavement Laboratory - Vicksburg, MS 39180