ANALYTICAL STUDY OF WEIGHING METHODS FOR HIGHWAY VEHICLES IN MOTION
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY PROGRAM IS DESCRIBED FOR THE INVEST- IGATION OF ERROR ASSOCIATED WITH THE WEIGHING OF HIGHWAY VEHICLES IN MOTION, USING MULTI-PLATFORM ELECTRONIC SCALES PLACED IN THE HIGHWAY. THE ERROR ASSOCIATED WITH A WEIGHING SYSTEM COMES FROM TWO SOURCES: (1) THE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF FORCE ON A HIGHWAY, AND THE PROCESS- ING OF DATA; AND (2) THE COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES EMPLOYED TO ASCERTAIN AXLE WEIGHT FROM THE SAMPLED FORCE DATA PROVID- ED BY THE PLATFORMS. THE VARIOUS DYNAMIC WAVEFORMS ASSOCIAT- ED WITH THE HIGHWAY VEHICLES WERE REVIEWED, AND SEVERAL COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES WERE EMPLOYED TO ASCERTAIN AXLE WEIGHTS FROM THE EXPECTED SAMPLED FORCE DATA WHICH WOULD BE PROVIDED BY A NUMBER OF PLATFORM TRANSDUCERS OR SCALES. THE INVESTIGATION OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR DETERMINING WEIGHT FROM THE SAMPLED FORCE DATA INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING: (1) DIRECT AVERAGING METHODS, WHEREBY THE FORCE OVER PLATFORMS WAS SIMPLY AVERAGED TO YIELD AN ESTIMATE OF AXLE WEIGHT, (2) DYNAMIC METHODS, WHEREBY AN ANALOGOUS MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR IS EMPLOYED TO FIT A SINE CURVE THROUGH THE OSCILLATING COMPONENT OF FORCE IN THE AVERAGE, (3) INTEGRAL MODEL III, WHEREBY A REGRESSION MODEL APPROXIMATING THE SECOND INTEGRAL OF AXLE FORCE WAS USED TO COMPUTE WEIGHT, AND (4) METHOD VWEIGH, AN AVERAGING PROCESS WHEREBY INTER- POLATION IS EMPLOYED TO YIELD A CONTINUOUS FORCE DATA RECORD. THE STUDY SHOWED THAT SIMPLE AVERAGING OVER THE PLATFORMS IS AN ECONOMICAL METHOD THAT CAN BE EMPLOYED, USING READILY AVAILABLE STANDARD EQUIPMENT AT A HIGHWAY SITE, WITH MAXIMUM ERROR GENERALLY LESS THAN 5 TO 6 PERCENT, DEPENDING ON VEHICLE OSCILLATION.
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Authors:
- Herrick, R C
- Publication Date: 1969
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
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Serial:
- NCHRP Report
- Issue Number: 71
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0077-5614
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Average; Axle load force; Calculation; Dynamic loads; Electronic equipment; Errors; Information processing; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Motion; Motor vehicles; Regression analysis; Weighing devices
- Uncontrolled Terms: Computation; Dynamic response; Moving vehicles
- Old TRIS Terms: Electronic devices
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00227941
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 9 1970 12:00AM