Ride Comfort Analysis of an AWD Vehicle Travelling on Different Types of Pavements

Peralta, Alejandro Oscar; Oliveira, André Noronha de; Campos, Caroline Goulart; Neto, Ricardo Teixeira da Costa; Caldeira, Aldélio Bueno

doi:10.4271/2017-36-0384

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“…Studies have confirmed the good correspondence between the dynamic responses obtained from simulation and those measured by the instrumented vehicle. There are different studies on this subject; starting from the estimated stresses in the simulation environment, it is possible to deduce the effects of vibrations on the user's well-being without the aid of instrumented vehicles [50][51][52].…”

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Assessing of the Road Pavement Roughness by Means of LiDAR Technology

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The assessment of the road roughness conditions plays an important role to ensure the required performances related to road safety and ride comfort, furthermore providing a tool for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation planning. In this work, the authors compared the roughness index (International Roughness Index, IRI) derived from high speed inertial profilometer with two other roughness indices, one dynamic and one geometric computed on a digital elevation model (DEM) built by using mobile laser scanner (MLS) data. The MLS data were acquired on an extra-urban road section and interpolated on the nodes of a DEM with a curvilinear abscissa, coinciding with the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) track of the profilometer. To estimate the grid cell elevation, we applied two interpolation methods, ordinary kriging (OK) and inverse distance weighting (IDW), over the same data. The roughness values computed on the surface of the DEM showed a similar trend and a high correlation with those acquired by the profilometer, higher for the dynamic index than for the geometric index. The differences between the IRI values by profilometer and those computed on the DEM were small enough not to significantly affect the judgments on the analyzed sections. Moreover, the road sub-sections derived from profilometer measure that were classified as critical coincided with those derived from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) surveys. The proposed method can be used to perform a network-level analysis. In addition, to evaluate the effects of vibrations on human comfort, we input the DEMs into a dynamic simulation software in order to compute the vertical accelerations, as specified in the UNI ISO 2631 standard. The values obtained were in line and correlated with those inferred from the standard methodology for profilometer measures.

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