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Airport Pavement Structural Design System
Easy to Use
Defining Inputs
Pavement and loading databases eliminate the need to constantly re-key
information. APSDS is an open system that lets you define your own material
properties and loadings.
Example
cbr6 - dependent
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thickness of a given layer in a few seconds on a Pentium PC.
Damage Factor
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in the traffic spectrum.
Damage graph shows damage variation across
pavement. APSDS can also generate graphs of any component of displacement, strain
or stress in two-dimensional or three-dimensional form.
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This Australian designed system has been in regular use World-wide for more
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APSDS is based on the internationally-accepted CIRCLY pavement design
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APSDS has been used for many major airport projects including:
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Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Material models The benefits of APSDS are many
Vista, Windows 7 or 8.x. and of major significance. They
multi-layered pavement system
impact on all levels of airport
800x600 display or higher isotropic and anisotropic operation - from design and
materials construction, to ongoing operation
define your own performance and maintenance.
criteria APSDS allows logical
automatic sub-layer generation comparisons to be made
for granular materials. between competitive pavement
design submissions.
Traffic Loadings
The impact of changing traffic
no limit on the number of
patterns and the effects of new
vehicle types or loading
aircraft such as the Airbus
conditions
A380 and Boeing's 777 on
User-specified aircraft wander proposed designs can be
analysis explicitly uses considered and planned for.
specified spectrum New and innovative pavement
erroneous short-cuts such as materials - binders, aggregates
"equivalent" axles or design and other developments - can
aircraft are not necessary be rationally assessed and
evaluated on a sound technical
and economic basis.
Optimize Costs Because ALL relevant factors -
current and future - can be
The Cost Analysis feature lets you fine taken into account, the risk of
tune layer thicknesses to minimize over-design caused by a lack
construction cost. You can specify of proper information can be
unit costs for each material. reduced .significantly
A Parametric Analysis feature can The accuracy of APSDS
loop through a range of thicknesses performance projections
for one or two layers, while minimises the risk of premature
simultaneously designing the pavement failure and its
thickness of another layer. This attendant liabilities problem.
feature will optimise up to three layers. The professional user is
Combining this with the Cost Analysis actively encouraged to use
feature, allows for fine-tuning of layer material performance data
Fulton Hogan have provided thicknesses to minimize construction which is project specific to
financial support for development and maintenance costs. ensure the integrity of the
design output. The speed of
by Mincad Systems..
the system allows
comprehensive sensitivity
analysis to be completed
quickly.
Typically, APSDS analyses are
processed and ready for review
in minutes.