Fractal Evaluation of Pavement Skid Resistance Variations. I: Surface Wetting

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1875-1890

  Kokkalis, Alexandros G ^a   Panagouli, Olympia K ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PAVEMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKID RESISTANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

FRACTAL INTERPOLATION;

FRACTALS;

EID: 0032203206     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00138-0     Document Type: Article

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