Airport runway and Taxiway Desing: Assembly & Manufacturing process of construction AIRPORT RUNWAY {Timelapse}: Turkey and Australia airports in 2024

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00:00 Turkey airport construction process
13:15 Building of Melbourne airport

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🤖How thick is airport runway concrete?
Typical narrow body runways usually have 11 to 13 inches (28 to 33 centimeters) of concrete thickness, and runways that serve wide body aircraft usually have 17 to 20 inches (43 to 51 centimeters) of concrete thickness. This type of construction qualifies a runway to be referred to as "hard surfaced" or "paved".

🤖How are airport runways built?
At most airports, runways are constructed of man-made material, usually asphalt, concrete or a combination of both. The choice of pavement material comes down to local ground conditions, the type of aircraft using the facility and cost. ... These operations are then used to calculate the required thickness of the pavement.

🤖What type of concrete is used for runways?
Airfield pavements are of two types, rigid and flexible. Rigid pavements are constructed of portland cement concrete slabs resting on a prepared subbase of granular material or directly on a granular subgrade. Load is transmitted through the slabs to the underlying subgrade by flexure of the slabs.

🤖Why are airport runways so expensive?
Building a runway is even more complex than building a major highway/motorway, which has similar demands in terms of the need for an extremely well engineered surface, high levels of quality control in the materials used, and superior drainage.