TP 13579 PROCEEDINGS of the 2nd International Meeting ... - UQAC

IMAPCR ’99
(150 kPa). A comparison was made between smooth and grooved surfaces; no real
difference was found.
Joint Winter Runway Friction Test Program Database
164. George Comfort, Senior Engineer, Fleet Technology, Canada, outlined the following
objectives:
• to store and organize ground vehicle data, reduced aircraft data, and environment data;
• to contain search routines and to write the search results to external files.
165. The system is based on Windows platform (95/98/NT), Access 97, and 2 MB. The
minimum hardware requirements for Windows 95/98 are: 32 MB RAM, Pentium 150 MHz.
CPU, and 100 MB hard drive space. For Windows NT, the minimum hardware requirements
are: 64 MB RAM, Pentium II 200 MHz. CPU and, 100 MB hard drive space.
166. The database includes ground vehicle data from the following tests:
• North Bay (1996, 1997,1998, and 1999);
• Norway (1998, 1999);
• Sawyer (1999).
167. At present, the database only includes data for the Falcon 20. Inclusion of data for the
Boeing 727, 737, and 757, and for the Dash 8 is planned.
168. The database can be searched through the following fields:
• test year and site;
• test number or date;
• type of aircraft;
• type of manoeuvre;
• aircraft configuration;
• braking action;
• speed range;
• surface base type;
• surface condition;
• maintenance action;
• depth of contaminant.
169. The output generates three files:
• aircraft data;
• associated ground vehicle data;
• associated environment data.
170. Mr. Comfort concluded his presentation by saying that the database has been produced and
tested, ground vehicle data are essentially complete, but some environmental data are
missing.
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