Runway design and structural design of an airfield pavement.

Abstract

The growth of air transportation is one of the most remarkable technological developments of last century. The phenomenal increase in air-travel, has created severe congestion at the airports in the large cities, needing additional facilities for rapidly growing short-haul domestic markets. The studies by ICAO in 2010 showed that the existing terminals and runways would be inadequate to handle air traffic and the Chennai International airport will saturate by 2015 and so The Greenfield Airport at Sriperumbudur was proposed. “Runway design and the Structural design of Airfield pavement” is a region specific project work that aims to geometrically design the runway and orient it considering all the factors that affect it including the environmental norms and regulations. Meteorological survey, Geological survey, Topographic survey, Drainage survey and Reconnaissance surveys are done in and around the proposed airport site. All the factors affecting site selection are considered and cross checked with the proposed site conditions and location. Meteorological data of the proposed site is obtained from the reliable web sites that depend on the Polar Orbiting Satellite Systems. Enviroware’sWindRose PRO3 software is used to analyse and plot the raw wind data of one year duration graphically as a wind-rose diagram. FAA guidelines and ICAO design criteria are strictly followed in the design and orientation of the runway. FAA designed software tools like FAARFIELD 2.5, F806FAA.xls and LEDFAA 13 were used to do the design of structural airfield pavement.