Non-standard longitudinal profiles of roads and indicators for their characterisation

International Journal of Vehicle Design

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 149-172

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Correlation function (CF); International Roughness Index (IRI); Longitudinal road profile; Non Gaussian distribution of elevations; Non homogeneous course of unevenness; Periodic component; Power spectral density (PSD); Unevenness (roughness)

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX (IRI); PERIODIC COMPONENTS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); WAVELENGTHS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 5444275999     PISSN: 01433369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.2004.005354     Document Type: Article

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