Effects of pavement surface texture on noise and frictional characteristics.

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• Creators:
  Ridnour, Ron ; Vander Schaaf, Dale
• Corporate Creators:
  Iowa. Highway Research Board
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Friction Pavement Grooving Pavements--Testing Road Construction Skidding Testing Tire/Pavement Noise Traffic Noise
• Publication/ Report Number:
  HR-281
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Iowa
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Iowa. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  An experimental modification of the transverse groove
  
  surface texture of a section of an urban interstate highway was
  
  performed by the Iowa Department of Transportation. Transverse
  
  groove texturing is a design feature required by the Federal
  
  Highway Administration to reduce skidding under wet pavement
  
  conditions. Adjacent residents claimed the texturing was the
  
  cause of especially annoying tonal characteristics within the
  
  traffic noise. A research proposal to modify the existing
  
  texture pattern by surface grinding and to study the noise and
  
  friction effects was approved for funding by the Iowa Highway
  
  Research Board. Results in the form of a comparison between
  
  traffic noise before modification and traffic noise immediately
  
  after and 15 months after modification indicate that the change
  
  in surface texture has lowered overall traffic noise levels by
  
  reducing a high frequency component of the traffic noise
  
  spectrum. Friction testing data show reduced capacity of the
  
  roadway to inhibit wet pavement skidding as a result of the
  
  surface modification.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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