CONCRETE PAVEMENT DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR CONTAINER TERMINALS

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a con­crete pavement design procedure for container terminals under an overall consideration of the operational conditions and the functional requirements of container handling areas. Two different design criteria are adopted for areas with different usage or loading conditions. Stress analysis was based upon a solution for a free-edged rectangular thick plate on a Wink­ler foundation, taking into account the trans­verse shear deformation and the edge effect, and a comprehensive computer program was deve­loped to produce simplified design charts and tables for stress calculations.