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Software Tools for Airport Pavement Design

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Abstract

In recent years, civil aviation has experienced intense growth. To meet this demand, a new generation of aircrafts has been developed, with more complex landing gear configurations and higher total gross weight. Therefore, new challenges were created for the design of airport pavements. In this sense, software tools were created to meet this need.

So the focus of this paper is to understand how this computational capacity has been applied in the design of airport pavements. To do this, this writing addresses the evolution of design methods, their formulations, how these methods are applied, and finally, what is the state-of-the-art for the software tools for airport pavement design. For the development of this text, the software FAARFIELD (USA), Alize-Airfield (France), APSDS (Australia), and PCASE (USA) were evaluated.

Finally, it was concluded that the main airport pavement design software has similar formulations and methodologies. In general, these applications apply layered elastic methods, with little variations and adaptations to the different existing normative standards. Also, some applications apply finite element methods to their design steps.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Tiago Tamagusko

  2. Research Center for Territory, Transports and Environment, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Adelino Ferreira

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

    Irena Orovic

  6. Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

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Tamagusko, T., Ferreira, A. (2020). Software Tools for Airport Pavement Design. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45691-7_7

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