Non-uniqueness of single-number indicators of longitudinal road profiles

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 747-766

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

International roughness index (iri); Longitudinal profile; Power spectral density (psd); Road surface; Single number unevenness indicator (sni); Straightedge (se); Unevenness index; Waviness

Indexed keywords

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTRAL DENSITY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; LONGITUDINAL PROFILE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); ROAD SURFACES; SINGLE-NUMBER UNEVENNESS INDICATOR (SNI); STRAIGHTEDGE (SE); UNEVENNESS INDEX; WAVINESS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 75949112360     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/rmpd.10.747-766     Document Type: Article

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