Create slab models of rigid pavement and understand the interaction with two famous airliners' landing gears

The focus of this course is to use a Finite Element Method software, to analyze runway's behavior under static load and face different issues related to airliners and runway pavements.

After the introductive Section 1, we'll face the Section 2, during which we'll focus on two famous civil airplanes, the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 777, and an important part of them, the landing gear. Important because landing gear is the contact between airplane and pavement.

We'll understand this interaction and the pavement answer to airplane loads.

The Section 3 will focus on: aerodrome pavements, in particular runways pavements; what ICAO states about them in relation to airplane compatibility; the differences between two classical stratigraphy, the rigid pavement and the flexible one; the variables that affect the runways design.