The U.S. Air Force has over 100 airfields located in various climates around the world. Many of the pavements at these bases are nearing the end of or have exceeded their design life. The Air Force implemented a pavements management program, primarily using the falling weight or heavy weight system to insure the pavements are properly maintained and can support existing and projected missions. The management system includes structural evaluations, friction characteristics testing, conditions surveys and MICRO-PAVER, a computerized program to manage the pavements. This paper only discusses structural evaluations.

Date Published: 7 July 1995
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 2455, Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft, Airports, Aerospace Hardware, and Materials, (7 July 1995); doi: 10.1117/12.213546

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2455:
Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft, Airports, Aerospace Hardware, and Materials
Tobey M. Cordell; Raymond D. Rempt, Editor(s)