LOAD EQUIVALENCY: ISSUES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
A 3-day Load Equivalency Workshop was organized by the Federal Highway Administration to facilitatie the effort to develop an improved system for determining load equivalency factors (LEF), and to develop a new approach to assess truck-pavement interaction. The participants identified the following key issues for future research: influence of road profiles on the dynamic forces imposed on the pavement; role of road simulators; inconsistencies in the results of tire research; integration of vehicle, tire and pavement dynamic models; need for a uniform definition of pavement response; and the need for distinct load equivalency models for different user classes. Each of these issues is discussed in this paper.
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Corporate Authors:
Federal Highway Administration
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Authors:
- Trapani, R
- Scheffey, C
- Publication Date: 1989-9
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 39-45
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Serial:
- Public Roads
- Volume: 53
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
- ISSN: 0033-3735
- Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
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Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Curbs; Loads; Mathematical models; Roads; Rolling contact; Roughness; Traffic equivalence factor; Trucks
- Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Road profile
- Old TRIS Terms: Rolled curb
- Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Pavements; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00491136
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Feb 28 1990 12:00AM