Characterizing road roughness by wavelet transform

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1869, 2004, Pages 152-158

  Wei, Liu ^a   Fwa, T F ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX (IRI); LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE (LTPP); ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE VERTICAL ACCELERATION (RMSVA); SLOPE VARIANCE (SV);

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 14044268748     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1869-18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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