Prototype Airfield Assessment Device Testing

Prototype Airfield Assessment Device The Airport Pavement R&D Section hosted a team of engineers under contract with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) this week to conduct tests on a prototype airfield assessment tool. The tool is intended to be rapidly deployable and easily shipped around the world to assist engineers in strength assessment of runways used by the military. ERDC needed the ability to provide controlled, repeatable loading of a known runway pavement construction and very controlled aircraft loading adjacent to their device. The National Airport Pavement Test Facility provided the full-scale aircraft loading on the centerline of the existing asphalt pavement. The ERDC team performed tests over three days and were able to validate the device performs as designed.

Murphy Flynn | ANG-E262