Sensitivity of road unevenness indicators to road waviness

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-149

  Múčka, Peter ^a   Kropáč, Oldřich ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

^b NONE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Half car model; International Roughness Index; Power spectral density; Road profile; Road roughness; Straightedge index; Unevenness index; Vibration; Waviness

Indexed keywords

MODEL AUTOMOBILES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; ROADS AND STREETS;

HALF-CAR MODEL; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; ROAD PROFILE; ROAD ROUGHNESS; STRAIGHTEDGE INDEX; UNEVENNESS INDEX; VIBRATION; WAVINESS;

ROADS AND STREETS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

HALF-CAR MODEL; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; ROAD PROFILE; ROAD ROUGHNESS; ROAD UNEVENNESS; ROUGHNESS INDEX; STRAIGHTEDGE INDEX; UNEVENNESS INDEX; VIBRATION; WAVINESS;

EID: 63449120410     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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