Flexible airport pavements in Australia have traditionally been surfaced with Marshall-designed dense graded asphalt (DGA). Grooving is undertaken to avoid aircraft skidding incidents during wet weather conditions, as well as satisfying regulatory surface texture requirements. Groove closure is a common distress experienced at airports surfaced with DGA in Australia and has led to the investigation of stone mastic asphalt (SMA) as an alternate runway surfacing. Due to the gap-graded nature of SMA, and therefore coarse surface texture, grooving can be avoided. To facilitate the use of SMA on Australian runways, a performance-based specification was developed in line with the latest advances of airport technology. This paper describes the development of a performance-based specification for Australian airport SMA, focusing on constituent materials and mixture design.


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    Title :

    Developing a Performance-Based Specification for Stone Mastic Asphalt as an Ungrooved Runway Surface


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference 2019 ; 2019 ; Chicago, Illinois



    Publication date :

    2019-07-18




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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