Landing Strip Strike Plates Anchored with Keligrout

 

The scope of work on this Kelken project includes the re-installation of tail hook strike plates. The retrofit is necessary due to the settling of the strike plates below the surface of the runway. This settling condition has allowed the aircraft tail hooks to slide over the plate and hit the concrete on each side which caused the breaking out of the area around the steel plates. See all the details in our short video presentation.

 

 

The flight deck of an aircraft carrier only has about 500 feet of runway space for landing military jets. The runways on the carriers are not nearly long enough for high speed jets to fully decelerate. To aide the landing process on the carrier flight deck, jets are equipped with a tail hook. The hook is used to achieve rapid deceleration during arrested landings aboard aircraft carriers. Pilots train to do these landing at the Naval Air Station in Meridian Mississippi.

 

The retrofit on the Meridian training runway began with the strike plates being removed and the old anchors core drilled out.  New stainless steel anchors were installed using Keligrout polyester resin. Shims were placed under the plates to bring them level with the runway. The strike plates were bolted to the runway to complete the retrofit.
 

 

The new anchors were installed using Kelkens Keligrout polyester resin to properly secure them in place. Keligrout is easily hand mixed and poured from the original container. The powder catalyst is stirred into the resin, then poured into properly prepared anchoring holes. 

 

• Keligrout can be used at sub freezing temperatures, in rainy weather and even underwater.
   
• Keligrout is about 50% cured after the first hour and fully cured after 24 hours.
   
• May be used in freezing conditions down to 10°F by keeping resin warm (70°) immediately prior to use.
   
• Over 40 DOTs, the Army Corps of Engineers, the FHWA, the Bureau of Reclamation and other government and private agencies and companies accept, specify and use Kelken anchoring products.

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