Rapid Damage Assessment. Volume I. Methodology for Selecting Repair Area of Ordnance-Damaged Pavements

This report introduces and provides detailed information on four damage assessment and data reduction systems. The functions of these systems are to locate and assess the magnitude and location of the damage sustained by an airbase pavement during an attack using conventional weaponry and to select the section of the runway requiring the least amount of repair time to make operational. The primary system utilizes a linear photodiode array camera (1728 elements) to scan the runway and a microcomputer and video processing equipment to reduce the data and select the repair area. Three backup systems are recommended which require more time to assess the damage and reduce the data. Recommendations are made by the New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI) for the development of the four systems. This report is Volume I of two volumes. (Author)