This invention relates to a vehicle arresting system comprising an arrestor-bed of a compactible foam material having a bulk compressive strength and a longitudinal centre axis extending from a front end to a back end opposite the front end, wherein the arrestor-bed comprises an assembly of prefabricated blocks arranged into an even numbered set of linear lanes of prefabricated blocks, where half of the set is located on a left side and half of the set is located on a right side of the longitudinal centre axis of the arrestor-bed, and where each linear line of prefabricated blocks are angled with an angle α, where 0°<α≤30°, towards the longitudinal centre axis of the arrestor-bed.
This invention relates to a vehicle arresting system comprising an arrestor-bed 1, of a compactible foam material having a bulk compressive strength and a longitudinal centre axis A-A′ extending from a front end to a back end opposite the front end, wherein the arrestor-bed comprises a set of linear zones having a compressive strength lower than the bulk compressive strength extending in parallel with the longitudinal centre axis of the bed, and/or are angled with an angle α, where 0°<α<45°, towards the longitudinal centre axis of the arrestor-bed.
The present invention relates to a vehicle arresting system comprising:
a) a base layer comprising at least one compressible material;
b) a carrier positioned and fixed by at least one fixation means on said base layer;
c) a levelling layer positioned on and/or embedding said carrier; and
d) a top layer.
B64F 1/02 - Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for arresting aircraft, e.g. nets or cables
E01C 9/00 - Special pavingsPavings for special parts of roads or airfields
E01F 13/12 - Arrangements for obstructing or restricting traffic, e.g. gates, barricades for forcibly arresting or disabling vehicles, e.g. spiked mats
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
Goods & Services
Composite structures (Non-metallic -) for paving of surfaces on airport runways; Building elements made of concrete or glas; Materials of concrete or glass for use at airport runways; Building and construction materials and elements made of concrete or glass for use at airport runways. Installation, repair and maintenance of airport runways; Installation, repair and maintenance of materials of concrete or glass for use at airport runways; Installation, repair and maintenance of building and construction materials and elements made of concrete or glass for use at airport runways.
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
Goods & Services
Composite structures (Non-metallic -) for paving of surfaces on airport runways; Building elements made of concrete or glas; Materials of concrete or glass for use at airport runways; Building and construction materials and elements made of concrete or glass for use at airport runways. Installation, repair and maintenance of airport runways; Installation, repair and maintenance of materials of concrete or glass for use at airport runways; Installation, repair and maintenance of building and construction materials and elements made of concrete or glass for use at airport runways.
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Stabilized aggregates and other materials and structures for energy absorption
Materials and structures for absorbing energy. The materials and structures are well suited for arresting aircraft and other vehicles, although their purposes need not be so limited. Also detailed are packaging and other solutions for maintaining system integrity, especially (but not exclusively) when foam glass or other aggregate is employed and stabilizing the location of the aggregate is desired.
A method of forming a vehicle arresting system includes installing a plurality of stratified layers of aggregate and compressing each layer prior to adding a next aggregate layer, a slab layer, and/or some other separation layer. In one aspect, one or more of the aggregate layers comprises a glass foam, and one or more of the slab layers comprises a cementitious material having an oven-dry density of 100 lb/ft3 or less, such as cellular concrete. The aggregate layers may be poured to approximately the same depth as one another, or at least one aggregate layer may have a different depth than the other aggregate layers. Similarly, the method of compaction for one aggregate layer may be the same as or different from the method used for the other aggregate layers.
E01C 9/00 - Special pavingsPavings for special parts of roads or airfields
E01C 19/48 - Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving for laying-down the materials and consolidating them, or finishing the surface
B64F 1/02 - Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for arresting aircraft, e.g. nets or cables
B32B 3/26 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a particular shape of the outline of the cross-section of a continuous layerLayered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a layer with cavities or internal voids
E01C 19/00 - Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving
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Stabilized aggregates and other materials and structures for energy absorption
Materials and structures for absorbing energy. The materials and structures are well suited for arresting aircraft and other vehicles, although their purposes need not be so limited. Also detailed are packaging and other solutions for maintaining system integrity, especially (but not exclusively) when foam glass or other aggregate is employed and stabilizing the location of the aggregate is desired.
Systems and methods for arresting aircraft. In specific embodiments, the systems and methods can be useful in arresting light aircraft because they typically do not have the weight to penetrate available EMAS systems. The system is generally provided as a structure having a suspended layer of energy absorbing material. A lower portion of the system can have a lower strength, used as a method to suspend an upper, stronger/more highly energy absorbent portion of the system.
E01C 9/00 - Special pavingsPavings for special parts of roads or airfields
B64F 1/02 - Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for arresting aircraft, e.g. nets or cables
E01C 19/00 - Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving
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Polymeric foam composite for vehicle arresting system
Embodiments of the present invention relate to composite materials for use as a vehicle arresting system (also referred to as an Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS). Specific embodiments may use modified polymeric foams composites. The polymeric foams may include additives, coatings, combinations of both, or other features than render them useful for an EMAS. The polymeric foams may also have one or more modified surfaces that provide a protective crust. For example, the one or more surface may be modified by application of heat in order to help close the polymeric foam cells and/or to create an encapsulative surface. These features can provide enhanced weather resistance, fire resistance, moisture absorption, jet blast resistance, improve their energy absorbing properties, or other desired features.
B64F 1/02 - Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for arresting aircraft, e.g. nets or cables
C08J 9/34 - Chemical features in the manufacture of articles consisting of a foamed macromolecular core and a macromolecular surface layer having a higher density than the core
Embodiments of the present invention provide a core of individual components having properties such that a system assembled from the components absorbs the kinetic energy of a moving vehicle. The components may be interlocking components. The components may be manufactured of ceramic or polymeric composite or other materials that are strong enough to absorb the vehicle's energy and help stop the vehicle safely by the system's ability to crush or deform upon impact, and not so strong that it causes the vehicle to crumple against the barrier. In one particular embodiment, the components may be modified packing elements that are traditionally used in gas to liquid columns.
Materials and structures for absorbing energy. The materials and structures are well suited for arresting aircraft and other vehicles, although their purposes need not be so limited. Also detailed are packaging and other solutions for maintaining system integrity, especially (but not exclusively) when foam glass or other aggregate is employed and stabilizing the location of the aggregate is desired.
Arresting beds for decelerating vehicles, especially passenger air-crafts unable to stop on available run-way, including a vehicle arresting system. The vehicle arresting system also includes a bed filled with foamed glass aggregate with particle sizes ranging from 0.25 cm to 15 cm and nominal void fractions from about 70 to 98%, and a top cover covering the upper surface of the bed of foamed glass aggregate.
Embodiments of the present invention provide cellular phosphate bodies formed using specialized steps to ensure a specific strength range, and specifically a compressive strength less than 100 pounds per square inch. Further embodiments relate to uses for various phosphate ceramics as vehicle arresting systems.
Engineered materials to stop or slow moving vehicles,
namely, a ground based arresting system comprised of
primarily non-metal crushable blocks designed to absorb the
impact and speed of moving vehicles.
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Field strength test devices and methods for installed engineered material arresting systems
Embodiments of the present invention provide field test devices and methods for testing the compressive gradient strength of installed vehicle arresting systems, such as those installed on airport runways. Current methods of testing such arresting systems are conducted on sample materials in-house, and these methods are not applicable or useful when tests need to be conducted on currently-installed systems in the field.
G01N 3/44 - Investigating hardness or rebound hardness by performing impressions under a steady load by indentors, e.g. sphere, pyramid the indentors being put under a minor load and a subsequent major load, i.e. Rockwell system
E01C 5/00 - Pavings made of prefabricated single units
Aircraft arresting beds at ends of runways may be subject to damaging effects of jet blast phenomena. Arresting units for that and other applications and which are resistant to such effects are described, with related methods.
Engineered materials to stop or slow moving vehicles, namely, a ground based arresting system comprised of primarily non-metal crushable blocks designed to absorb the impact and speed of moving vehicles
