A large number of airports are under construction in mountainous areas in China, to improve the local traffic conditions. However, the construction and the management of the high filling airports, built by"cutting the mountains to fill the valleys", still face many difficulties. In order to control the quality of the high filling project, a real-time monitoring system for high filling compaction is developed by using the "Internet Plus" technology. The driverless technology makes the automated intelligent construction become a reality; In order to control the settlement after the construction, a safety monitoring system in the whole life cycle is established, which can predict the long-term deformation and issue disaster warnings in advance. In order to deal with the increased water content of the shallow soils under the airport runway, known as the pot effect, both laboratory and field experiments are conducted to trace the causes. Meanwhile, an effective engineering measure is proposed to reduce the pot effect by laying the insulating layer below the position where the soil temperature is around 0℃.

high filling airports  /  compaction monitoring  /  deformation monitoring  /  pot effect