Actual Trends in the Conception and Design of Pavements for Airport Runway

摘要

After the description of types of pavement for airport runway, the paper presents the principle of various modern methods used in structural design, such as French practice, United States of America practice and the Canadian one. Finally based on their performance, the French and the Canadian one are selected in order to be used for the study of new durable runway pavements in comparison with the classical ones.