Accession Number:

ADD012900

Title:

Expedient Runway Surfacing with Post Tensioning System for Expeditionary Airfields.

Descriptive Note:

Patent,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Springston,Preston S.
• Claxton,Richard L.

Report Date:

1986-08-12

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

A portable airfield runway having an anchoring and tensioning system is comprised of a plurality of fiberglass reinforced plastic panels anchored with earth anchors at each end of the runway and uses self-contained hydraulic tensioning and load maintenance units to maintain constant tension on the runway while allowing for both expansioncontraction due to temperature and dynamic aircraft braking loads.

Descriptors:

• *PATENTS
• *RUNWAYS
• *COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
• LANDING FIELDS
• TENSION
• ANCHORS
• SOILS
• CONTRACTION
• EXPANSION
• AIRCRAFT
• MAINTENANCE
• PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
• SURFACES
• BRAKING
• DYNAMIC LOADS
• LOADS(FORCES)
• FIBERGLASS
• GLASS REINFORCED PLASTICS
• PANELS
• CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

Subject Categories:

• Terminal Flight Facilities

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE