Pavement System for a Container Handling Facility at Port Canaveral, Florida: Design, Construction and Load-Testing

Abstract

The design methodology, construction procedures and results of a full scale load test on a pavement system for container handling facility at Port Canaveral, Florida, is presented in this paper. The facility was constructed in an area that was created by raising under-water land with dredged materials that are expected to undergo differential compression under the anticipated high wheel loads from container handling equipment. In order to minimize the effects of differential settlement of the subgrade and lateral spreading of base course material, such as cracking, rutting and loss of serviceability, the pavement system was designed to consist of interlocking concrete pavers installed above a crushed granite base course reinforced with a layer of biaxial geogrid,