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Expedient Airfield Runway Repair Using Folded Fiberglass Mat, Christopher Tuan, William Dass
Expedient Airfield Runway Repair Using Folded Fiberglass Mat, Christopher Tuan, William Dass
Christopher Y. Tuan
For expedient airfield runway repair, the US Air Force has developed a folded fibreglass mat to cover craters repaired with a well-compacted granular base material. The objective of this study was to evaluate the adequacy of using polymer plugs to anchor the mat to a repaired asphalt pavement for heavy aircraft operations. The effort consisted of materials testing, field experiments and analytical modelling. An 89,800-kg (198,000-pound) load cart having the footprint of a single C-5 main gear was pulled on a mat with wheels locked to simulate full braking forces. Anchor bushings were instrumented to measure anchor loads. A simplified …