Indicators of longitudinal road unevenness and their mutual relationships

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 523-549

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

International Roughness Index (IRI); Longitudinal profile; Power Spectral Density (PSD); Profile measurement; Road surface; Surface unevenness roughness; Three band Indicators (TBI)

Indexed keywords

ROADS AND STREETS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); PROFILE MEASUREMENT; ROAD SURFACES; THREE-BAND INDICATORS (TBI);

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

EID: 34548755579     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/rmpd.8.523-549     Document Type: Article

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