A METHOD FOR PRODUCING STANDARD SURFACES TO CALIBRATE THE PORTABLE SKID-RESISTANCE TESTER

This report discusses the need to produce standard surfaces against which the portable skid-resistance tester can be calibrated and demonstrates the principle of a possible method of manufacture of such surfaces. The work has also investigated the changes in skid resistance value likely to take place when a surface is repeatedly evaluated. The method used to condition standard surfaces was to simulate the action of the portable skid-resistance tester so that the effect of a large number of measurements could be achieved in a short period, thus producing surfaces which were in a "steady state". /Author/TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Transport and Road Research Laboratory

  Environment Division, Old Wokingham Road
  Crowthorne RG11 6AU, Berkshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • CALDER, AJJ
• Publication Date: 1974

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Equipment; Pile caps; Portable equipment; Simulation; Skid resistance; Standardization; Support piles; Surfacing; Test procedures; Testing equipment
• Uncontrolled Terms: Reproducibility; Tapered piles
• ITRD Terms: 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 6171: Calibration; 9060: Portable; 9103: Simulation; 3031: Skid resistance; 2972: Surfacing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096501
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRRL 99 Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM