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Title:

Effects of Tire Frictional Heat on Snow Covered Road Surface

Abstract:

For the quantitative understanding of the effects of tire frictional heat and compaction of vehicles on the snow layer on a pavement, a wheel-tracking test was carried out. This paper describes the heat transfer coefficient between tire and dry pavement or packed snow obtained from the combination of a wheel-tracking test and the winter road surface prediction model and shows the comparison between the test results and the computational results on the packed snow and pavement temperature.

Source(s):

13th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC), University of Fukui and Suiko Engineering (Japan)

http://www.sirwec.org/conferences/proceedings_sirwec2006.pdf

Date: 2006

Author:

Fujimoto, Watanabe, Fukuhara

Keywords:


Pavement temperature
Forecast/Prediction
Snow

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