Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

ILLINOISUniversity of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign


Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

A Partnership in Research and Outreach with theFederal Aviation Administration

and theO’Hare Modernization Program

David Lange and Bill ButtlarDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign





FAA, OMP and UIUC in partnership

O’HareModernization

Program

FederalAviation

Administration

Advisory Committee:

Chris Arman, OMPJoe Depa, PMO

Ross Anderson, Master CivilMike Hanlon, Airline Rep

FAA Sponsor:

FAA Tech Ctr, Airport Tech R&D BranchContacts:

David Brill, FAA COE Program MgrSatish Agrawal, Branch Manager

Pat Watts, Director of COE Programs



FAA, OMP and UIUC in partnership

O’HareModernization

Program

FederalAviation

Administration

Subgrade issues

Materials & Pavements

Horticulture/Wildlife

Outreach

Subgrade & pavements

Wildlife issues

Anti-icing

Outreach



UIUC team

Faculty and Staff• David Lange -- Director• Ed Herricks -- Lead faculty• Bill Buttlar -- Lead faculty• Marshall Thompson• Jeff Roesler• Erol Tutumluer• Leslie Struble• John Popovics• Bruce Branham• Minosca Alcantara -- Outreach• Eve Earles -- Chicago Outreach• Vicki Dixon -- Asst to Director

UIUC Students:• Francis Nelson III• Zach Grasley• Rob Rodden• Yi Shi Liu• Cristian Gaedicke• Salvador Villalobos• Harkanwal S. Brar• Matt D’Ambrosia• Ben Birch• Tongyan Pan• Amanda Kiser• Theresa Kissane• Hyunwook Kim• Ying Wang



Partners of FAA COE Program

• Northwestern University– Suru Shah assisted concrete research in previous years

• North Carolina A&T– Has contributed to minority internship program…Contacted

to help in 2006

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute– Nadarajah Narendran leads Lighting Research Center, to

pursue research on LED lighting for airports

• Embry Riddle -- Prescott, AZ– Archie Dickey contributes to FAA bird strike database



Our OMP Partner• $6.6B program (Phase I)

– 35 miles of runways, taxiways

– 2.2M cu yds of PCC– 29M cu yds of earthwork

• Modern, parallel runway configuration

• Massive earthmoving, construction, hydraulic, environmental impact challenges



Moving toward Parallel Runways



CEAT contributes to OMP in 2005•Illuminate technical issues… improve decisions!

• Subgrade stabilization study contributed to decisions that avoided additional test sections, saving over $100,000.

• Improved specification language for lime modification and lime stabilization, providing for improved construction quality and reduced potential for weather-related construction delays.

• Study of soil and turfgrass contributed to a decision to avoid import of topsoil to O’Hare, saving millions of dollars.

• Improved specification language to achieve longer pavement service life with more durable aggregates.

• Improved specification language to reduce shrinkage cracking potential.

• Strategies to reduce concrete cost compared to previous O’Hare mixtures, with potential to save over $100,000 on the 9L-27R new north runway.

• 20 Tech Notes covering wide range of issues



• Pavement Research Program– Moisture curling of concrete slabs for airfield applications

• D.A. Lange and J.R. Roesler

– Materials Testing for NAPTF Base/Subbase and Subgrade Layers• E.Tutumluer

– Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Airfield Concrete Slabs• J.R. Roesler

– Fatigue in Airport Pavements• S.H. Carpenter

– Design of Flexible Overlay Systems for Asphalt Pavements: Phase II Advanced Model Development

• W.G. Buttlar

FAA -- FY2005 Program



• Wildlife Research Program– Bird Strike Advisory System

• Ed Herricks

• Outreach Program– Summer COE Internship Program for Minority Graduate Students

• D.A. Lange

FAA -- FY2005 Program - CONT.



OMP -- 2006 Program

• Sub-grade Support and Stabilization (’05-‘06 Tech Project) –Tutumluer/ Thompson[OMP Contact: Ross Anderson]

• Materials/Potassium Acetate on ASR (’05 -’06 Tech Project) –Struble [OMP Contact: Michael Vonic]

• PCC Mix Designs (’05-‘06 Tech Project) –Roesler /Lange[OMP Contact: Ross Anderson]

• Field Validation of Constructed Subgrade and Pavement (’06 Tech Project) –Popovics [OMP Contact: Ross Anderson]

• Reflective Cracking and Grooving of Asphalt Overlays (’06 Tech Project) – Buttlar / Al-Qadi[OMP Contact: Dave Peshkin]

• Aggregate Testing (’06 Tech Project) –Tutumluer [OMP Contact: Ross Anderson]

• Airport Wildlife Safety Management (’06 Tech Project) –Herricks/Branham[OMP Contact: Larry Martin]

• Outreach Program – Minosca Alcantara/David Lange [OMP Contact: Joe Depa/ Larry Martin]



OMP Construction is underway…One CEAT project will install pavement

instrumentation in Summer 2006

Area at junction of blue and red pavements will be paved in 2006

We will have access to install sensors in several slabs

North Airfield Projects



• 4 students interns in Summer 2005

• 36 attended Tech Transfer Workshop in May 2005

• High School and Grade School Outreach Projects

• Minority & Women Owned Business Contractor Program with OMP

• Guest Speakers

CEAT Outreach Highlights in 2005



Questions?

Documents

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