Effect of obstacles on the indicators of road unevenness

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

Volumn 220, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1333-1343

  Kropac O ^a   Mucka P ^b  

^a Slovak Academy of Sciences ^*

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bump; Depression; Longitudinal road profile; Obstacle; Pot holes; Power spectral density (PSD); Road unevenness (roughness); Unevenness index; Waviness

Indexed keywords

ROADS AND STREETS; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

BUMP; DEPRESSION; LONGITUDINAL ROAD PROFILE; OBSTACLE; POT-HOLES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); ROAD UNEVENNESS (ROUGHNESS); UNEVENNESS INDEX; WAVINESS;

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

EID: 38949085603     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070JAUTO337     Document Type: Article

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