Pavement
Transducer for the Measurement of Horizontal Stresses at the Tyre Pavement Interface
- Publication no: AP-T49-06
- ISBN: 1 921139 46 3
- Published: 30 August 2006
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The move towards performance based specifications (PBS) for the nation s vehicle fleet is expected to result in increased stressing of pavement surfacings. The extent of surface stressing is currently unknown and the capacity of surfacing treatments to resist these stresses is poorly defined. This report describes the development of a transducer to obtain quantitative data on the shear stressing of surfacings by vehicles. A literature review identified a number of transducers which had been manufactured to obtain vertical loading data.
- AP-T49/06 Transducer for the Measurement of Horizontal Stresses at the Tyre Pavement Interface
- SUMMARY
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES
- 1. TECHNICAL SUMMARY
- 2. BACKGROUND
- 3. EXISTING TRANSDUCERS
- 3.1. University of Ulster’s tracker apparatus
- 3.1.1. Transducer details
- 3.1.2. Discussion and conclusions
- 3.1.3. Suitability of the tracker transducer to the Austroads investigation
- 3.2. CSIR (South Africa) SIM system
- 3.2.1. Transducer details
- 3.2.2. Discussion and conclusions
- 3.2.3. Suitability of the CSIR transducer to the Austroads investigation
- 4. TRANSDUCER DEVELOPED FOR PROJECT
- 4.1. Transducer details
- 4.2. Preliminary assessment
- 4.3. Calibration and installation
- 5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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