Performance of protective composite runway pavement under moving and impact loads

This PhD thesis is devoted in developing new multi-layer composite and concrete runway pavements to increase the resistance to impact load and heavy moving load and hence to extend the service life of runway pavement. A new series of laboratory tests results along with computer based structural analyses are presented to understand the effectiveness of new multi-layer composite and concrete runway pavements. The outcome of this research will be beneficial for the runway pavement designer to introduce and design such impact and moving load resistant multi-layer composite and concrete runway pavement and thereby to reduce the damage of runway pavement due to the hard landing of exceptionally large and heavy weighted aircrafts, high velocity and heavy weighted falling objects during accidents, terrorist attacks etc.