The optimization of a pavement management system necessitates the knowledge on the actual values of pavement condition parameters, actual pavement condition improvement as related to the use of various rehabilitation strategies, and scope of pavement deterioration before and after rehabilitation. The data for six pavement condition parameters (bearing capacity, unevenness, rut depth, macro text...

NOTE: This is a first draft of the RMSPG report. It needs substantial polishing, is definitely too long and still, in places, incomplete. However, we post it in this preliminary state in order to invite community input at a stage when input can still help us shape the final report. We trust that the unevenness and imperfection will be recognized for its preliminary nature (“warts and all”). We ...

In this paper, the effects of using semi-active control strategy (such as MR dampers) in vehicle suspensions on the coupled vibrations of a vehicle traversing a bridge are examined in order to develop various designs of smart suspension systems for bridge-friendly vehicles. The bridge-vehicle coupled system is modeled as a simply supported beam traversed by a two-degree-of-freedom quarter-car m...

A thermomechanical study of the effects of mold topography on the solidification of Aluminum alloys at early times is provided. The various coupling mechanisms between the solid-shell and mold deformation and heat transfer at the mold/solid-shell interface during the early stages of Aluminum solidification on molds with uneven topographies are investigated. The air-gap nucleation time, the stre...

The results from urban scaling in recent years have held the promise of increased efficiency to the societies who could actively control the distribution of their cities' size. However, little evidence exists as to the factors which influence the level of urban unevenness, as expressed by the slope of the rank-size distribution, partly because the diversity of results found in the literature fo...

There were determined the parameters and operating modes of centrifugal dispersion system a grain pneumatic seeder, which ensured minimum unevenness seed between lines.