An alternative approach to pavement roughness evaluation

International Journal of Pavement Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-78

  Loizos, A ^a   Plati, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

IRI; PSD; Ride quality; Roughness; Speed; Vehicle response

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS EVALUATION; RIDE QUALITY; ROUGHNESS INDEX; STRUCTURAL CAPACITY; VEHICLE RESPONSE;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 36949012290     PISSN: 10298436     EISSN: 1477268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10298430600949894     Document Type: Article

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