Be careful when using the International Roughness Index as an indicator of road unevenness

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 287, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 989-1003

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

^a Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics Slovak Academy of Sciences ^*  (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PASSENGER CARS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRUCKS;

HARMONIC UNDULATION; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX (IRI); POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); VARIANCE COMPONENT;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 24344458113     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2005.02.015     Document Type: Article

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