Specification of Obstacles in the Longitudinal Road Profile by Median Filtering

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 214-226

  Kropáč, Oldřich ^a   Múčka, Peter ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND MACHINE MECHANICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bump; Longitudinal road profile; Pothole; Power spectral density (PSD); Road surface; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

BUMP; LONGITUDINAL ROAD PROFILE; POTHOLE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); ROAD SURFACE;

ABILITY TESTING; ASPHALT; LANDFORMS; PAVEMENTS; PORTLAND CEMENT; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECIFICATIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ASPHALT; CEMENT; CONCRETE; ROAD; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 79952388374     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000209     Document Type: Article

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