Title: Road damage due to dynamic tyre forces measured on a public road

Authors: T.E.C. Potter, D. Cebon, D.J. Cole, A.C. Collop

Addresses: University Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK. ' University Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK. ' University Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK. ' University Engineering Department, Trumpington St, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK

Abstract: This paper describes a series of tests conducted on a UK trunk road, in which the dynamic tyre forces generated by over 1500 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) were measured using a load measuring mat containing 144 capacitive strip sensors. The data was used to investigate the relative road damaging potential of the various classes of vehicles, and the degree of spatial repeatability of tyre forces present in a typical highway fleet. Approximately half the vehicles tested were found to contribute to a spatially repeatable pattern of pavement loading. On average, air suspended vehicles were found to generate lower dynamic load coefficients than steel suspended vehicles. However, air suspended vehicles also generated higher mean levels of theoretical road damage (aggregate force) than steel suspended vehicles, indicating that the ranking of suspensions depends on the pavement damage criterion used.

Keywords: articulated vehicles; dynamic tyre forces; spatial repeatability; static load sharing; vehicle suspensions; road damage; vehicle dynamics; heavy vehicles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHVS.1996.054569

International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, 1996 Vol.3 No.1/2/3/4, pp.346 - 362

Published online: 18 Jun 2013 *

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