블로우업이 발생하는 구간에 ASR이 발생하고 있지만, 한국도로공사는 재료팽창인 ASR을 고려하지 않고, 콘크리트 팽창량을 계산하 여 팽창줄눈 설치간격을 제시하고 있다. 또한, 블로우업은 일종의 좌굴현상이므로 슬래브 두께에 따라 팽창줄눈 간격을 제시할 필요가 있다. 따라서 본연구는 재료팽창과 슬래브 두께를 고려하여 팽창줄눈 간격을 제시하고자 한다. 팽창량 계산시, 재료변형률과 지역별 온도와 건조수축을 고려하였으며, 이를 동등한 팽창을 유발하는 온도상승량으로 변환하는 식을 도출하였다. 기준온도를 정하기 위해 실제 현장데이터를 팽창량 식에 대입하여 온도상승량으로 변환하였으며, 이를 블로우업을 모사한 콘크리트 포장 모형의 유한요소해석 결과를 이용하여 결과값을 비교하였다. 안전설계를 위해 더 작은 온도 값인 블로우업 구조해석 결과 값 중 안전온도를 블로우업이 일 나는 기준으로 선정하였으며, 안전 온도를 넘지 않은 지역별 슬래브 두께에 따른 최대 팽창줄눈 간격을 제시했다. 한국도로공사가 제 시하고 있는 기준과 비교한 결과, 일부 지역은 한국도로공사에서 제시하고 있는 기준에 만족하지 않았다. ASR 변형률을 고려하여 슬 래브 두께에 따라 지역별로 팽창줄눈 간격을 제시하는 것이 블로우업 파손을 저감하고, 포장의 안정성을 향상시키는데 도움이 될 것 이라고 판단된다.

PURPOSES : In this study, the propriety of expansion joint spacing of airport concrete pavement was examined by using weather and material characteristics. METHODS: A finite element model for simulating airport concrete pavement was developed and blowup occurrence due to temperature increase was analyzed. The critical temperature causing the expansion of concrete slab and blow up at the expansion joint was calculated according to the initial vertical displacement at the joint. The amount of expansion that can occur in the concrete slab for 20 years of design life was calculated by summing the expansion and contraction by temperature, alkali-silica reaction, and drying shrinkage. The effective expansion of pavement section between adjacent expansion joints was calculated by subtracting the effective width of expansion joint from the summation of the expansion of the pavement section. The temperature change causing the effective expansion of pavement section was also calculated. The effective expansion equivalent temperature change was compared to the critical temperature, which causes the blowup, according to expansion joint spacing to verify the propriety of expansion joint applied to the airport concrete pavement. RESULTS: When an initial vertical displacement of the expansion joint was 3mm or less, the blowup never occurred for 300m of joint spacing which is used in Korean airports currently. But, there was a risk of blow-up when an initial vertical displacement of the expansion joint was 5mm or more due to the weather or material characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: It was confirmed that the intial vertical displacement at the expansion joint could be managed below 3mm from the previous research results. Accordingly it was concluded that the 300m of current expansion joint spacing of Korean airports could be used without blowup by controling the alkali-silica reaction below its allowable limit.