Aircraft Traffic Mix Analysis: Damage Factors and Coefficients

by G. R. Rada, PCS/Law Engrg, Beltsville, United States,
M. W. Witczak, PCS/Law Engrg, Beltsville, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Aircraft/Pavement Interaction: An Integrated System

Abstract:

Historically, traffic mix analyses have been based upon the use of the critical or most damaging aircraft. The damage effects of other aircraft are either ignored or empirically incorporated into the analysis. This paper presents an alternate traffic mix analysis procedure. In it, the damage produced by any given aircraft, at any specified gross weight and operating on any given pavement system is computed. Because the proposed procedure is computationally intensive, a computer solution developed by the authors is described. Also, recommendations are provided for establishing a simplified aircraft mix damage factor identical in concept to the highway truck factor.

Subject Headings: Traffic analysis | Aircraft and spacecraft | Airport and airfield pavements | Air traffic | Stress analysis | Computer analysis | Pavement condition

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