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AIRFIELDPAVEMENTMANAGEMENTAn Example Featuring Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)

Presented byRick Boudreau, P.E., M.ASCE

Acknowledgement:Quintin Watkins, P.E., M.ASCEMichael Baker International

Presentation Outline

• Pavement Management• Background and Development of PMS at ATL• Inventory Requirements• Engineering Data Elements• Integration (GIS and PAVER)• Questions

Pavement Management ProgramHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Pavement Management


Definition: A Pavement Management System (PMS) is a planning tool used to aid pavement management decisions. They model future pavement deterioration due to traffic and weather exposure, and recommend maintenance and repairs to the network of pavements based on the type and age of the pavement and various measures of existing pavement quality.

Pavement Management


Definition: A Pavement Management System (PMS) is a planning tool used to aid pavement management decisions. They model future pavement deterioration due to traffic and weather exposure, and recommend maintenance and repairs to the network of pavements based on the type and age of the pavement and various measures of existing pavement quality.

• Structural Response• Surface Distress Quantification• Material Quality of Structural Layers• Traffic• Smoothness??


History of Pavement Studies-ATLTechnique 1984 1987 1991 1994 1997 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) √ √ √ √ √

Falling Weight Deflectometer (HWD) √ √ √ √ √ √

Rolling Dynamic Deflectometer (RDD) √

Visual Condition Ratings (Runways) √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Visual Condition Ratings (Taxiways) √ √ √ √ √ √

Crack, Spall and Patch Surveys √ √ √ √ √ √

Photographic Documentation √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Slab Numbering Convention √ √ √ √ √ √

Concrete Cores and Soil Borings √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Concrete Materials Studies √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

SEM/EDX (Concrete) √ √ √ √ √

Smoothness Assessments √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Video Imagery (Runways) √ √ √

Geographic Information System (GIS) √ √ √ √ √ √

MicroPAVER √ √ √ √ √ √

Airfield Marking Audit √

Inventory Requirements

• Construction History (Date of Construction)• Date of Construction• Layers in Pavement Structure (Type and Thickness)• Joint Spacing• Steel Reinforcement (in-slab and at joints)

• Traffic Levels (if known)• Type of Aircraft• Departure vs Arrival• Frequency


Concrete Thickness?



08L-26R1984

08L-26R2014 (Keel)

08R-26L2006

09L-27R1974

09R-27L1999

10-282006

Pavement Thickness by Runway(current)


Pavement Age?

Nearly 60% of these pavements have exceeded their initial 20-year design life


Traffic?

Engineering Data Elements

• Structural Response (HWD testing)



• Structural Response (HWD testing)• Distress Surveys (PCI)• Coring/Borings

• confirm thickness values• materials testing (modulus, etc.)• forensics (ASR damage assessment, etc.)

• Runway Profile Assessment (Boeing Bump)



• Coring/Borings• confirm thickness values• materials testing (modulus, etc.)• forensics (ASR damage assessment, etc.)



• Structural Response (HWD testing)• Distress Surveys (PCI)• Coring/Borings

• confirm thickness values• materials testing (modulus, etc.)• forensics (ASR damage assessment, etc.)



Integration (GIS and PAVER)


Will Cost $8 to $10Here


THANK YOU!

Richard L. Boudreau, P.E., M.ASCE(404) 388-1137 mobile

[email protected]

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