Estimation of waviness of the longitudinal road profile from straightedge measurement

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 801-812

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Highways and roads; Measurement; Power spectral density; Surface roughness; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

CONTACT POINTS; HIGHWAYS AND ROADS; LONGITUDINAL ROAD PROFILE; MEAN VALUES; MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; ROAD PROFILE; SHORT WAVELENGTH BANDS; SIMULATED PROFILE; UNEVENNESS INDEX;

ESTIMATION; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; ROADS AND STREETS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; ROAD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 70350397320     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000058     Document Type: Article

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