Development of an Automated Airfield Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (AADCP) Prototype and the Evaluation of Unsurfaced Airfield Seismic Surveying Using Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves (SSW) Technology.

Abstract

The mission of U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers is to infiltrate unused airfields. A specially trained evaluation team, carrying limited portable testing equipment, evaluates the unsurfaced airfield for use as a landing zone. The equipment used to evaluate the bearing capacity of the airfield is the Dynamic Cone Penetrator (DCP). Empirically based relationships are used to predict the type and number of aircraft passes on the unsurfaced airfield based on inputs from the DCP. It was the goal of this research to improve on the field testing equipment used in the unsurfaced airfield evaluation process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA281985

Entities

People

  • David Weintraub

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Bearing Strength
  • Civil Engineering
  • Combat Control Teams
  • Control Systems
  • Engineers
  • Field Tests
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Soil Mechanics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.