An Analytical Model for Airfield Pavement Analysis.

Abstract

A technique is developed for analytically evaluating pavement systems using the finite element method. This technique covers a broad range of 'real world' problems including arbitrary gear loading, and variation in geometry and properties of pavement and soil. To facilitate use of the finite element code, pre- and post-processing codes have been written which provide automatic element generation and computer drawn plots of results. Finally, a discussion is presented of extension of the present linear elastic technique to nonlinear material characterization and dynamic load response. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0901448

Entities

People

  • John E. Crawford

Organizations

  • Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Computers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Dynamic Loads
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Geometry
  • Landing Fields
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Pavements
  • Topology
  • Topology Optimization

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.