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Bridge Expansion Joint in Road Transition Curve: Effects Assessment on Heavy Vehicles [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2017 Properly-designed road surfaces provide a durable surface on which traffic can pass smoothly and safely. In fact, the main causes that determine the structural decay of the pavement and its parts are the traffic loads.
Paola Di Mascio +4 more
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Machines, 2022 Rollover detection and prevention are among the most critical aspects affecting the stability and safety assessment of heavy vehicles, especially for off-road driving applications. This topic has been studied in the past and analyzed in depth in terms of
Antonio Tota +4 more
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Electrification of Agricultural Machinery: A Review
IEEE Access, 2021 Today, agriculture industry has a significant impact in global greenhouse gas emissions. A large amount of pollutants come from diesel internal combustion engines, widely used in agricultural machinery.
Elia Scolaro +5 more
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Developing A New Model for Assessment of Heavy Vehicle-Pedestrian Collisions
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2023 The treatment and analysis of accidents involving heavy transport vehicles and pedestrians include the identification and treatment of a certain number of factors that may differ from the cases of passenger vehicle-pedestrian accidents.
Gezim Hoxha +2 more
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Do Heavy Vehicles Always Have a Negative Effect on Traffic Flow?
Applied Sciences, 2021 The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of heavy vehicles on traffic flow on a two-lane highway. To achieve this goal, data was obtained from piezosensors on the Seoul–Chuncheon Expressway.
Chang-Gyun Roh +2 more
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Computational Analysis of Turbulent Flow over a Bluff Body with Drag Reduction Devices [PDF]
Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics, 2020 Reducing aerodynamic drag of heavy trucks is crucially important for the reduction of fuel consumption and hence results in less air pollution. One way to reduce the aerodynamic drag is the deployment of drag reduction devices at the rear of trucks and ...
Adam Abikan, Zhiyin Yang, Yiling Lu
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Actuators, 2023 Active suspension systems for automotive vehicles were developed in the past using hydrostatic, electric, magnetic and magnetorheological (MR) technologies to control road vibrations and vehicle dynamics and thus improve ride comfort and vehicle ...
Gabrielle Mallette +4 more
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Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment, 2023 Providing an appropriate length of highway entrance ramps is an important feature that should be considered in freeway design. The recommended minimum acceleration lane length in the Green Book of the American Association of State Highway and ...
Saremi Niousha +3 more
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On Liability Insurance for Automobiles [PDF]
, 2010 Car owners are liable for property damage inflicted on other motorists. In most countries such liability must be insured by law. That law may favor expensive or heavy vehicles, prone to suffer or inflict large losses.
Berlin Humboldt-universität +8 more
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Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019 Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a unit used to represent the impact of a large vehicle on a road by expressing it as the number of equivalent passenger vehicles.
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