Assessing the Impact of Rutting Depth of Bituminous Airport Runway Pavements on Aircraft Landing Braking Distance during Intense Precipitation

A runway pavement during its useful life is subject to a series of deteriorations because repeated load cycles and environmental conditions. One the most common formation rutting (surface depression in wheel path) on surface. Rutting negatively affects aircraft performance landings will behave even worse precipitation or with existence fluid contaminations This paper aims develop model for calculating braking distance landing wet-pavement runways affected by based dynamic skid resistances generated tire–fluid–pavement interactions. Intense precipitation, variable depths 100 m length step, water film (e.g., 1 26 mm), loads 10 140 kN) are considered as boundary conditions developed model. The output that can estimate function depth perform further assessment probability occurrence overrun. After validating existing methodologies calibrating it according actual required each type aircraft, an Italian airport simulated using real data regarding level service surface characteristics.