Road Roughness and Whole Body Vibration: Evaluation Tools and Comfort Limits

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 818-826

  Cantisani, Giuseppe ^a   Loprencipe, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comfort limits; Highways; Pavement deterioration; Road roughness; Surveys

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCESS; COMFORT EVALUATION; COMFORT LIMITS; COMPLEX MODEL; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; EVALUATION TOOL; GEOMETRIC DATA; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HIGHWAYS; INTERNATIONAL ROUGHNESS INDEX; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; ISO STANDARDS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PAVEMENT DETERIORATION; PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS; ROAD ENGINEERING; ROAD IRREGULARITIES; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD ROUGHNESS; ROAD SECTION; ROAD UNEVENNESS; ROAD USERS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TECHNICAL STANDARDS; VEHICLE SPEED; VEHICLE VIBRATIONS; VERTICAL ACCELERATIONS; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PAVEMENTS; STANDARDS; SURVEYS; VEHICLES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOMOBILE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MODELING; PAVEMENT; ROAD TRANSPORT; ROUGHNESS; STANDARD (REFERENCE); VIBRATION;

EID: 81355153859     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000143     Document Type: Article

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