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Challenges for the compaction and proving of granular fills and layers in airport pavements

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dc.contributor.author White, G
dc.contributor.author Anstee, H
dc.contributor.editor Pasindu, HR
dc.contributor.editor Bandara, S
dc.contributor.editor Mampearachchi, WK
dc.contributor.editor Fwa, TF
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-24T04:01:53Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-24T04:01:53Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation ***** en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/20247
dc.description.abstract The compaction and proving of granular materials during construction is fundamentally import to airport pavement design practice. This is particularly so in countries that make significant use of granular base courses with relatively thin asphalt surfaces, such as Australia. The compaction of dredged sand fills, up to 1500 mm deep is also important where airport pavements are constructed over low bearing capacity marine clays, primarily in areas of reclaimed land. The large 180 tonne Supercompactor for compacting sand fills is no longer available in Australia and the 50 tonne Macro rollers for proving granular pavement layers were downgraded from 1400 to 1000 kPa tyre pressure. Meanwhile, large commercial aircraft have ever-increasing tyre pressures and wheel loads. This has created a challenge in the form of a gap between roller capability and aircraft demand. The gap is relatively minor for the compaction of deep sand fills, but the inability to theoretically compare the effect of static rollers with that of vibrating and impact rollers makes this difficult to quantify. The alternate is an expensive field trial to demonstrate acceptable sand density at depths to 1500 mm. In contrast, a significant gap exists for the proving of fine crushed rock layers used in upper base courses under thin (60–100 mm) asphalt surfaces. This challenge requires rollers with higher tyre pressure or significantly thicker asphalt surface courses to be adopted, both of which are expensive. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.subject Compaction en_US
dc.subject Proof rolling en_US
dc.subject Granular en_US
dc.subject Fill en_US
dc.subject Airport en_US
dc.subject Pavement en_US
dc.subject Construction en_US
dc.title Challenges for the compaction and proving of granular fills and layers in airport pavements en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87379-0_19 en_US
dc.identifier.year 2021 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Road and Airfield Pavement Technology en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 99-112 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology, 2021 en_US
dc.identifier.email gwhite2@usc.edu.au en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87379-0_7 en_US


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