Air Force Institute of Technology, 01-494 Warsaw, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 4;17(5):1663. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051663.
Many factors have an impact on flight operation safety and air transport participants life. This article presents one of them, which is maintenance of the airport infrastructure in a good condition, with proper infrastructure management, in particular of cash and human resources. At the beginning of the article, attention is paid to the aspect of safety and human life in air transport. Also, an overview of world experience in the field of assessment of the technical condition of airport pavements was presented, including the standard method of the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) estimation. Then, the authors propose an innovative method of assessing the condition of airport pavements based on the Airfield Pavement Condition Index (APCI), taking into account, apart from the extent of surface damage, such parameters as load capacity, evenness, roughness, and bond strength. This approach gives a broader picture of the actual condition of the airport pavement, which has a great importance on flight operation safety, including passengers and cruel life. Next the described research method is experimentally verified in real conditions at Polish airports. Finally, an example of using the APCI method in the assessment of selected airport pavements from Polish airports is presented. The results of tests performed on five functional elements of a military airfield are presented. A satisfactory result is obtained for three elements, an adequate-for two.
许多因素都会影响飞行运行安全和航空运输参与者的生命。本文介绍了其中一个因素，即保持机场基础设施处于良好状态，对基础设施进行适当的管理，特别是对现金和人力资源的管理。文章开头关注了航空运输安全和人类生命的方面。此外，还介绍了世界范围内评估机场跑道技术状况的经验，包括使用路面状况指数（PCI）评估的标准方法。然后，作者提出了一种基于机场跑道状况指数（APCI）的机场跑道状况评估的创新方法，该方法除了考虑表面损坏程度外，还考虑了承载能力、平整度、粗糙度和粘结强度等参数。这种方法更全面地反映了机场跑道的实际状况，对飞行运行安全（包括乘客和机组人员的生命安全）具有重要意义。接下来，在波兰机场的实际条件下对所描述的研究方法进行了实验验证。最后，展示了在波兰机场评估选定机场跑道时使用 APCI 方法的一个示例。对军事机场的五个功能部件进行了测试，其中三个部件的结果令人满意，两个部件的结果则是合格。
