FAARFIELD 1.

2 Federal Aviation
Administration

Workshop
FAARFIELD 1.2 New FAA
Software for Airport Pavement
Thickness Design

Presented to: IQPC Pre-Conference Workshop A

By: Gordon Hayhoe, FAA Airport Tech. R&D Branch
Location: Carlton Hotel, Singapore
Date: October 7, 2008
 Acknowledgments
Sponsor Office of Airport Safety and Standards, AAS-100
John Rice (Retired)
Rodney Joel

Staff - Airport Technology R&D Branch, AJP-6312

Satish Agrawal
Gordon Hayhoe
David Brill
Navneet Garg

Consultants
Roy McQueen
Dick Ahlvin

Support Contractor SRA International

Chuck Teubert
Edward Guo
Izydor Kawa
Lia Ricalde
Qiang Wang

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Agenda
Introduction.
Installation of the program.
Demonstration of standard designs:
New rigid.
New Flexible.
Unbonded rigid overlay on rigid.
Overview and background:
Examples:
CDF accumulation with seasons.
Overload using CDF.
Undefined layer for improved soil.
Rigid overlay for pavement with SCI
Examples from the audience, questions, etc.

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Federal Aviation Administration
Airport Technology R&D Program
Research conducted at the FAA William J.
Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
Sponsor: FAA Office of Airport Safety and
Standards, Washington, DC.
Provide support for development of FAA
pavement standards (Advisory Circulars).
ACs are usually incorporated in projects funded
under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP).
http://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/

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 Location of FAA Technical Center

New York
Philadelphia
Washington

FAA Technical Center

Atlantic City, New Jersey

* Outline map of USA used by permission of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.

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National Airport Pavement Test
Facility (NAPTF)
FACTS:
Located at the FAA William
J. Hughes Technical Center,
Atlantic City International
Airport, NJ.
Fully enclosed facility for
accelerated traffic testing of
airport pavements.
Used to support the
development of pavement
design procedures.
Opened in 1999.
Total construction contract
was $21M.
$14M from FAA
$7M from Boeing Co. under
FAA/Boeing CRDA.

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FAARFIELD What Is It?
Federal FAARFIELD is the new
FAA airport pavement
Aviation thickness design
Administration program.
Rigid and FAARFIELD will
supersede LEDFAA
Flexible 1.3 as the standard
Iterative design procedure in
the next revision of
Elastic FAA Advisory Circular
Layered (AC) 150/5320-6E.
Design Release anticipated
soon

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AC 150/5320-6E
Completed technically
but held up by overwork
in the legal department.
No design charts (first
introduced in 6C).
FAARFIELD is required
for thickness design.
May be released as an
interim, or draft, for
support of AIP projects.
Check the ARP website.

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FAARFIELD 1.1
Released with the draft version of 6E when
it was posted for public comment.
Now replaced by FAARFIELD 1.2.
Design procedures are unchanged,
thicknesses are the same as 1.1.
Pass-to-coverage calculation is now
independent of gear type.
If you are using 1.1 it is recommended that
you uninstall 1.1 and install 1.2.

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Additional Changes in Version 1.2
Pavement thickness is now computed for constant
tire contact area.
Changing the airplane gross weight causes the tire pressure to
be adjusted to maintain the contact area.
External aircraft library in XML format.
Displays CDF values graphically.
Enhanced Airplane Data window now displays gear
coordinates.
Support for PCC over rubblized base.
Aircraft changed to Airplane(s).
Check the Readme file for more.

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General Development Philosophy
The program is intended to be used for production
thickness design and to replace the design charts
in 6C and 6D.
Although the program can be used to analyze
pavement response this is very low priority.
It should be possible to do standard FAA designs
with very little training and very little retained
knowledge.
Beyond that, what is needed is a copy of 6E and an
understanding of the principles of pavement
design.

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