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Runway Design Data

This document provides information about pavement data and charts used for airport planning. It describes pavement charts that show the minimum range of four loads imposed on main landing gears to aid interpolation. Pages 180-181 present data on landing gear configurations and maximum taxi loads. Page 182 shows maximum pavement loads at the tire-ground interface. Pages 183-191 provide main landing gear loads throughout stability limits to determine required pavement strength. Section 7.9 describes how to determine the Aircraft Classification Number (ACN) for flexible and rigid pavements using charts that consider an aircraft's gross weight and subgrade strength category.

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Runway Design Data

This document provides information about pavement data and charts used for airport planning. It describes pavement charts that show the minimum range of four loads imposed on main landing gears to aid interpolation. Pages 180-181 present data on landing gear configurations and maximum taxi loads. Page 182 shows maximum pavement loads at the tire-ground interface. Pages 183-191 provide main landing gear loads throughout stability limits to determine required pavement strength. Section 7.9 describes how to determine the Aircraft Classification Number (ACN) for flexible and rigid pavements using charts that consider an aircraft's gross weight and subgrade strength category.

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7.0 PAVEMENT DATA
7.1 General Information
A brief description of the pavement charts that follow will help in their use for airport planning. Each
airplane configuration is depicted with a minimum range of four loads imposed on the main landing
gear to aid in interpolation between the discrete values shown. All curves for any single chart
represent data based on rated loads and tire pressures considered normal and acceptable by current
aircraft tire manufacturer's standards.
Pages 180 and 181 present basic data on the landing gear footprint configuration, maximum design
taxi loads, and tire sizes and pressures.
Maximum pavement loads for certain critical conditions at the tire-to-ground interface are shown on
Page 182.
Pavement requirements for commercial airplanes are customarily derived from the static analysis of
loads imposed on the main landing gear struts. The charts on Pages 183 through 191 are provided in
order to determine these loads throughout the stability limits of the airplane at rest on the pavement.
These main landing gear loads are used as the point of entry to the pavement design charts,
interpolating load values where necessary.
The flexible pavement design curves (Section 7.5) are based on procedures set forth in Instruction
Report No. S-77-1, "Procedures for Development of CBR Design Curves," dated J une 1977, and as
modified according to the methods described in ICAO Aerodrome Design Manual, Part 3, Pavements,
2
nd
Edition, 1983, Section 1.1 (The ACN-PCN Method), and utilizing the alpha factors approved by
ICAO in October 2007. Instruction Report No. S-77-1 was prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The line showing 10,000 coverages is used to calculate Aircraft Classification Number (ACN).
Rigid pavement design curves (Section 7.7) have been prepared with the Westergaard equation in
general accordance with the procedures outlined in the Design of Concrete Airport Pavement (1955
edition) by Robert G. Packard, published by the American Concrete Pavement Association, 3800
North Wilke Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004-1268. These curves are modified to the format
described in the Portland Cement Association publication XP6705-2, Computer Program for Airport
Pavement Design (Program PDILB), 1968, by Robert G. Packard.

To 1.75 MPa
(254 psi)
To 1.25 MPa
(181 psi)
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7.9 ACN/PCN Reporting System - Flexible and Rigid Pavements
To determine the ACN of an aircraft on flexible or rigid pavement, both the aircraft gross weight and
the subgrade strength category must be known. In the chart in 7.9.1, for an aircraft with gross weight
of 300,000 lb on a (Code C), the flexible pavement ACN is 51. Referring to 7.9.2, the same aircraft
on a low strength subgrade rigid pavement has an ACN of 54.4.
The following table provides ACN data in tabular format similar to the one used by ICAO in the
Aerodrome Design Manual Part 3, Pavements. If the ACN for an intermediate weight between
maximum taxi weight and minimum weight of the aircraft is required, Figures 7.9.1 through 7.9.2
should be consulted.


ACN FOR RIGID PAVEMENT
SUBGRADES MN/m
3

ACN FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT
SUBGRADES CBR


AIRCRAFT
TYPE

MAXIMUM TAXI
WEIGHT

MINIMUM
WEIGHT (1)

LB (KG)
LOAD
ON
ONE
MAIN
GEAR
LEG
(%)

TIRE
PRESSURE

PSI (MPa)

HIGH
150

MEDIUM
80

LOW
40

ULTRA
LOW
20

HIGH
15

MEDIUM
10

LOW
6

ULTRA
LOW
3
DC-8-63 358,000(162,386)
17,100(7,756)
-- 182 (1.25) 48
17
55
18
66
21
81
27
51
17
60
19
69
23
78
26


(1) Minimum weight used solely as a baseline for ACN curve generation.






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7.9.1 AIRCRAFT CLASSIFICATION NUMBER - FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT
MODEL DC-8: ALL SERIES
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7.9.2 AIRCRAFT CLASSIFICATION NUMBER - RIGID PAVEMENT
MODEL DC-8: ALL SERIES

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