Longitudinal road unevenness with periodic components: Characterization and effects on people in a traversing vehicle and the loading of the pavement

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 219, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 773-790

  Kropac O ^a   Mucka P ^b  

^a Slovak Academy of Sciences ^*  (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Band characteristics; Effect on freight; Effect on the driver passenger; International roughness index (IRI); Longitudinal road profile; Periodic components; Power spectral density (PSD); Response of traversing vehicle; Road unevenness (roughness); Undulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; LOADS (FORCES); PAVEMENTS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BAND CHARACTERISTICS; EFFECT ON DRIVER/PASSENGER; EFFECT ON FREIGHT; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX (IRI); LONGITUDINAL ROAD PROFILE; PERIODIC COMPONENTS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); RESPONSE OF TRAVERSING VEHICLE; ROAD UNEVENNESS; UNDULATION;

AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 20844457340     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095440705X28394     Document Type: Article

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