Pavement Surface Macrotexture Measurement and Applications

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1860, 2003, Pages 168-177

  Flintsch, Gerardo W ^a   De León, Edgar ^b   McGhee, Kevin K ^c   Al Qadi, Imad L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FRICTION; PROFILOMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HOT-MIX ASPHALT (HMA); SURFACE MACROTEXTURES;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS;

EID: 16544384332     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1860-19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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