Alternative single-number indicator of longitudinal road unevenness

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 389-401

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Half car model; International roughness index; Power spectral density; Road profile; Unevenness index; Vibration response; Waviness

Indexed keywords

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

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MODEL AUTOMOBILES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

ROADS AND STREETS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MODEL; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROAD TRANSPORT; ROUGHNESS; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; VIBRATION;

EID: 65449134778     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L08-101     Document Type: Article

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