Introduction Evaluating the condition of transportation infrastructure is an expensive, labor
intensive, and time consuming process. Many traditional road evaluation methods utilize …

Pavement skid resistance plays a crucial role in ensuring road safety and avoiding
accidents. In the past, the laboratory evaluation of the skid resistance was carried out by …

The microstructure characteristic of asphalt mixture has substantial effects on its
macroscopic mechanical properties. The study on the structural characteristics of asphalt …

Asphalt mixtures are widely used in the construction of high-grade highways and airport
pavements. With regard to numerical simulations it was considered as homogeneous due to …

The friction force for aircraft landing is mainly provided by the texture of runway surfaces.
The mechanism underlying friction force generation is the energy dissipation of tire rubber …

This article features a field experiment conducted on existing road pavements to
characterise macro-and micro-texture variations at actual road conditions and to …

In this paper, the role of crushing operation on the cubical controlling features of coarse
aggregates, and its influence on the shape distribution characteristics of aggregates (ie …

Non-destructive pavement aggregate gradation estimation during construction is required
because the aggregate distribution is difficult to control but impacts pavement performance …

This article deals with the most suitable calculation procedure for top topography surface
roughness power spectrum (PSD). The information top PSD provides about the roughness …

The development of the skid resistance of asphalt road surfaces was simulated in a
laboratory. Asphalt plates were taken from a test track. They were polished using the Aachen …