Heavy goods vehicles apply higher than expected loads to road pavements because of dynamic bouncing. TRL has measured these loads for a variety of steel, rubber and air suspensions on the TRL research track and on public highways. Bouncing of goods vehicles causes dynamic pavement loads with standard deviations that are typically 10-30 % of static loads, depending on the suspension type and road roughness. Tests show how much these dynamic loads can be reduced by suitable choice of suspension. An estimate is made of the amount that road wear could be reduced if all goods vehicles used the best of current suspensions. Some measurements have been made of the effect of different suspensions on the peak dynamic axle loads on bridges. Work is in progress to develop test procedures to enable the road-friendliness of different types of suspensions to be assessed.


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    Title :

    Test of road friendliness for heavy vehicle suspensions


    Additional title:

    Prüfung der Straßenfreundlichkeit von Federungen schwerer Fahrzeuge


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    20 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 18 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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