Features
APSDS 5.0 is coming soon.
A brief summary of the new features is given here.
If you order APSDS 4.0 now, you will receive APSDS 5.0 at no extra cost when it is released.
The Airport Pavement Structural Design System (APSDS) is the leading edge pavement design package for Airports.
The unique APSDS methodology rigorously incorporates lateral vehicle wander and state-of-the-art pavement material properties and performance models.
APSDS calculates the cumulative damage induced by the whole traffic spectrum comprising any combination of aircraft types and load configurations.
Any current design methodology can be used.
Easy to use, yet comprehensive
- The user-friendly menu driven interface runs under Microsoft Windows.
- typical runs take a few seconds on Pentium PCs
- results in tabular form and report-quality graphs
- report-quality hard copies can be made on the wide range of printers and plotters supported by Microsoft Windows
- results can be easily exported to other application packages such as spreadsheets for further processing.
- pavement and loading databases eliminate need to constantly re-key information.
- results in tabular form and report-quality graphs.
- Sample plot of lateral distribution of cumulative damage predicted by APSDS
Traffic
- no limit on the number of aircraft types or loading conditions
- uses actual multi-wheel gear layout
- wander statistics specified by standard deviation
- analysis explicitly uses specified spectrum
- no erroneous short-cuts such as "equivalent" single wheels
- special loadings such as braking included
- does not require conversion to coverages
Material models
- multi-layered pavement system
- isotropic and anisotropic materials
- define your own performance criteria
System Requirements
- IBM®-compatible PC with a Pentium® class processor.
- 800x600 pixels minimum display.
- 32 megabytes of memory (64 megabytes recommended).
- Microsoft® Mouse or compatible mouse.
- Microsoft® Windows® Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or NT 4.
- Microsoft® Excel® for Windows (from Office 95, 97 or 2000).
Further details
- Click here to download the Product Brochure.
- Short overview paper from the ICAO Journal
- Detailed paper describing theory and applications
- Interaction Effects for Multiple Gears
