USE OF BLANK AND RIBBED TEST TIRES FOR EVALUATING WET-PAVEMENT FRICTION

Skid-resistance data are compared by the ASTM E274 locked-wheel test method that uses blank E524 and ribbed E501 test tires on 59 pavements. The ribbed E501 tire is shown to be a poor discriminator of the drainage capability from the tire-pavement interface produced by pavement macrotexture. The blank E 524 test tire is shown to produce data sensitive to both macrotexture and microtexture. The pavements included in the study range from well-polished and worn dense-graded asphalt and portland cement concrete to open-graded asphalt grooved portland cement concrete; they ranged in SN40 from 24 to 69 with the ribbed tire. It is also noted that the ribbed E501 tire provides better drainage than do most passenger car tires during the latter third of their usable life. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Henry, John Jewett
• Conference:
  • 59th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1980-1-21 to 1980-1-25
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-6
• Monograph Title: Interaction between Vehicles and Pavement Surfaces
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 788
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage; Friction; Macrotexture; Microtexture; Pavements; Rolling contact; Skid resistance tests; Surface course (Pavements); Test procedures; Texture; Tires; Wet weather
• Uncontrolled Terms: Wet pavements
• Old TRIS Terms: Locked-wheel
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pavements; Vehicles and Equipment; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00335217
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309032024
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM