Evaluation of rigid pavement on apron of terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport using finite element method

Abstract

The development of transportation technology is indicated by the appearance of a new aircraft gear configuration, dual trim. The load repetitions of the movement of aircraft with dual-tridem gears, such as B-777-300ER aircraft with MTOW 28 tons, on Terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (SHIA) apron may cause pavement deformation, resulting in long-term fatigue and structural failures. Therefore, the performance of the existing rigid pavements to hold the loads for the next 20 years should be evaluated. Firstly, the equivalent annual departure and coverage of the aircraft in the airport up to 2037 is calculated. Next, the existing rigid pavement structure of the apron in the airport is modeled using a finite element method to calculate thermal stress and fatigue analysis for either the dowel or the slab. Our study result shows that the coverage value for the next 20 years is 86,534 with the maximum deflection of 0.055 mm and the maximum stress of 0.496834 MPa. The calculated thermal stress is 1.55 MPa, resulting in load repetition for the slab 1,241,484 and an infinite load repetition for the dowel.