Airfield Rigid Pavement Structural Design—A Review of Main Aspects and Methods of Analysis

Airfield pavements present a number of characteristics that make their design considerably different from that of road pavements. Apart from load magnitude and it's frequency, maintenance issues and pavement strength classification reporting are aspects that must be considered in the design phase. In the present paper, these aspects are analysed in the light of traditional and new methods of airfield pavement analysis. Parametric studies are performed in order to study the effects of different factors, such as pavement structure, layer thickness, material strength, effects of temperature, load transfer across joints and traffic characteristics.