Estudo estrutural duma pista duma infraestrutura aeroportuária

Abstract

Airport infrastructure represents fundamental area in civil mobility background. Then it states that airport pavements are critical to the topic and it affects the economic development of cities and countries. Therefore, the dissertation objective is to concern about the structural characteristics and behavior of aerodromes over time, in order to provide feasible key concepts to better understand the theme and the evolution of the subject. In this regard, a research has been made about the structural capacity of an aerodrome in Braganza and it was related to the results of the runway PCN, or Pavement Capacity Number. The PCN has the purpose to depict the possibility of airfield pavements operations, one distinctive concept from the highways for example. This definition is determined by International Civil Aviation Organization (or ICAO) and it is exhibited in ICAO’s manuals about the Aircraft Classification Number (or ACN) in ACN/PCN method. The inspections were made in three different ways: first assuming the COMFAA program to establish PCN, further uses an Civil Engineering National Laboratory (or LNEC, in Portuguese) approach to a structural loss factor in runway, and the last one the LNEC formulation without its loss factor. As the system that provides the PCN does not have an international standard procedure, the present dissertation attempt to fill in the knowledge about this subject and elucidate its meaning and implementation. Hence, the main purpose is to supply user security.