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Worldwide Standards for Concrete Mixtures for Safe and Durable Runways and Taxiways
The technology that led to optimized concrete paving mixtures was born of a need to develop a method to specify and control the quality of concrete mixtures for construction of a $600 million office building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in the early 1970s. However, there were no materials standards in the kingdom. It was necessary for this author to learn how to achieve that goal using the non standard, locally available materials. The research was done in a laboratory in Athens, Greece. The results included the introduction of a nomograph on which six independent variables can be plotted and used to assess concrete mix performance. That technology is being applied today for construction of buildings, highways, and airfields all over the world. The first verification of the technology for airfield construction was done at the Jeddah International Airport in Saudi Arabia.
Worldwide Standards for Concrete Mixtures for Safe and Durable Runways and Taxiways
The technology that led to optimized concrete paving mixtures was born of a need to develop a method to specify and control the quality of concrete mixtures for construction of a $600 million office building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in the early 1970s. However, there were no materials standards in the kingdom. It was necessary for this author to learn how to achieve that goal using the non standard, locally available materials. The research was done in a laboratory in Athens, Greece. The results included the introduction of a nomograph on which six independent variables can be plotted and used to assess concrete mix performance. That technology is being applied today for construction of buildings, highways, and airfields all over the world. The first verification of the technology for airfield construction was done at the Jeddah International Airport in Saudi Arabia.
Worldwide Standards for Concrete Mixtures for Safe and Durable Runways and Taxiways
Shilstone, Sr., James M. (author)
29th International Air Transport Conference ; 2007 ; Irving, Texas, United States
Aviation ; 237-250
2007-08-17
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Worldwide Standards for Concrete Mixtures for Safe and Durable Runways and Taxiways
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