Laboratory Evaluation of the Performance of Stone Mastic Asphalt as an Ungrooved Runway Surface

Sean Jamieson; Greg White

doi:10.3390/ma14030502

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Laboratory Evaluation of the Performance of Stone Mastic Asphalt as an Ungrooved Runway Surface

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Laboratory Evaluation of the Performance of Stone Mastic Asphalt as an Ungrooved Runway Surface

Sean Jamieson and Greg White

Materials, Vol.14(3), pp.1-18

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14030502

PMCID: PMC7864486

PMID: 33494291

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Abstract

runway

stone mastic

ungrooved

asphalt

stone mastic asphalt (SMA)

Many airports are surfaced with grooved Marshall-designed dense graded asphalt. Grooving is required to satisfy regulatory aircraft skid resistance requirements, but introduces the risk of groove-related distress, such as groove closure. Consequently, airports seek an ungrooved runway surface option that performs similarly to dense graded asphalt but allows grooving to be avoided. Stone mastic asphalt is the most viable ungrooved runway surface solution and has been used on runways in Europe and China. However, before being accepted as an ungrooved runway surface in Australia, stone mastic asphalt must be shown to meet regulatory runway aircraft skid resistance requirements, and to otherwise perform similarly to typical dense graded asphalt mixtures for runway surfacing, including deformation resistance, fatigue cracking resistance and durability. Based on laboratory performance-related testing, 10-mm and 14-mm sized stone mastic asphalt mixtures, produced with four different aggregate sources, were found to generally meet the airport asphalt performance requirements. The 14 mm mixture was found to perform better than the 10 mm mixture, particularly regarding surface macrotexture and deformation resistance. It was concluded that airports should consider 14 mm sized stone mastic asphalt as an ungrooved runway surface in the future.

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Title: Laboratory Evaluation of the Performance of Stone Mastic Asphalt as an Ungrooved Runway Surface
Authors: Sean Jamieson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science and Engineering - Legacy
Greg White (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science and Engineering - Legacy
Publication details: Materials, Vol.14(3), pp.1-18
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2021
DOI: 10.3390/ma14030502
ISSN: 1996-1944
PMID: 33494291; PMC7864486
Copyright note: Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Organisation Unit: School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99506007602621
Output Type: Journal article

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