Center of Excellence for Airport Technology

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Center of Excellence for Airport Technology A
Partnership in Research and Outreach with
theFederal Aviation Administrationand
theOHare Modernization Program David Lange and
Bill ButtlarDepartment of Civil and
Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
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FAA, OMP and UIUC in partnership
OHareModernizationProgram
FederalAviationAdministration
Advisory Committee Chris Arman, OMPJoe Depa,
PMORoss Anderson, Master CivilMike Hanlon,
Airline Rep
FAA Sponsor FAA Tech Ctr, Airport Tech RD
BranchContactsDavid Brill, FAA COE Program
MgrSatish Agrawal, Branch ManagerPat Watts,
Director of COE Programs
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FAA, OMP and UIUC in partnership
OHareModernizationProgram
FederalAviationAdministration
Subgrade issues Materials Pavements Horticulture
/Wildlife Outreach
Subgrade pavements Wildlife issues Anti-icing Ou
treach
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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 DAmbrosia
• Ben Birch
• Tongyan Pan
• Amanda Kiser
• Theresa Kissane
• Hyunwook Kim
• Ying Wang

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Partners of FAA COE Program

• Northwestern University
• Suru Shah assisted concrete research in previous
  years
• North Carolina AT
• Has contributed to minority internship
  programContacted 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

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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

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Moving toward Parallel Runways
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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 OHare,
  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 OHare mixtures, with potential to save
  over 100,000 on the 9L-27R new north runway.
• 20 Tech Notes covering wide range of issues

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FAA -- FY2005 Program

• 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

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FAA -- FY2005 Program - CONT.

• Wildlife Research Program
• Bird Strike Advisory System
• Ed Herricks
• Outreach Program
• Summer COE Internship Program for Minority
  Graduate Students
• D.A. Lange

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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

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OMP Construction is underwayOne CEAT project
will install pavement instrumentation in Summer
2006
North Airfield Projects
Area at junction of blue and red pavements will
be paved in 2006 We will have access to install
sensors in several slabs
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CEAT Outreach Highlights in 2005

• 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

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Questions?