Testing and Performance Evaluation of Ultrathin Whitetopping Pavements at Spirit of St. Louis Airport

Wu, Chung-Lung; Sheehan, Matthew J.

doi:10.3141/1809-24

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“…and conventional [250 mm (10 in.)] whitetopping overlays were placed at the Spirit of St. Louis Airport in 1995 (8,53). Although the project was not a highway application, valuable information was collected, which has resulted in improved design and construction specifications.…”

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Thin and Ultra-Thin Whitetopping

Rasmussen¹,

Rozycki²

2004

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Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly complex problems of wide interest to highway authorities. These problems are best studied through a coordinated program of cooperative research. In recognition of these needs, the highway administrators of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials initiated in 1962 an objective national highway research program employing modern scientific techniques. This program is supported on a continuing basis by funds from participating member states of the Association and it receives the full cooperation and support of the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies was requested by the Association to administer the research program because of the Board's recognized objectivity and understanding of modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited for this purpose as it maintains an extensive committee structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to the National Research Council is an insurance of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to bring the findings of research directly to those who are in a position to use them. The program is developed on the basis of research needs identified by chief administrators of the highway and transportation departments and by committees of AASHTO. Each year, specific areas of research needs to be included in the program are proposed to the National Research Council and the Board by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Research projects to fulfill these needs are defined by the Board, and qualified research agencies are selected from those that have submitted proposals. Administration and surveillance of research contracts are the responsibilities of the National Research Council and the Transportation Research Board. The needs for highway research are many, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program can make significant contributions to the solution of highway transportation problems of mutual concern to many responsible groups. The program, however, is intended to complement rather than to substitute for or duplicate other highway research programs.

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“…TWT overlays are used on highway and secondary roads carrying a wide range of traffic, from light to heavy (1). General aviation airports have also used this class of whitetopping for runway, taxiway, and apron pavements (8). Because they are thinner, UTW overlays are best suited for more lightly loaded pavements.…”

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