Revised 2020
Concrete pavers bedded in sand have proven to provide a suitable wearing surface for both air carrier jet and general aviation aircraft. Such pavements have been used for apron and low speed taxiway pavements and have been trafficked by aircraft in U.S., Europe, and the Caribbean for several years. Pavements surfaced with concrete pavers have shown to exhibit many of the desirable properties of conventional concrete pavements (e.g. resistance to fuel spills and static indentation) at significant savings in cost and construction time.
This manual presents procedures for the structural design of airport pavements with concrete pavers. The manual is intended to augment U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circular 150/5320-6F, “Airport Pavement Design and Evaluation”(1) by modifying established FAA methods for the design of flexible pavements.