PURDUE RESEARCHERS STUDY ROAD NOISE

Following the lead of European engineers, Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, has created the Institute for Safe, Quiet, and Durable Highways. The institute's goal is to analyze roads and find ways to reduce traffic noise. A large obstacle to creating quieter roads is the fact that the friction between tires and asphalt that keeps automobiles from sliding is also responsible for a great deal of the sound produced on highways.

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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/10480594
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Publication Date: 2000-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 32
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 70
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt pavements; Computer programs; Friction; Noise control; Noise sources; Research projects; Roads; Tests; Tires; Traffic noise
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00790692
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 2000 12:00AM