A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular...
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Road surface marking is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information; they are commonly placed...
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Tarmacadam (redirect from Tarmac (road surface))
Tarmacadam is a road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in...
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A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians...
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Macadam (redirect from Macadam road)
the surface stones smaller than the width of a wheel made for a good running surface. The small surface stones also provided low stress on the road, so...
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importance of selecting clean stones for surfacing while excluding vegetable material and clay, resulting in more durable roads. By the late 18th and early 19th...
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Tire (redirect from Off-the-road tire)
the road surface. Contact patch— The contact patch, or footprint, of the tire, is the area of the tread that is in contact with the road surface. This...
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Millau Viaduct (section Road surface)
the metal road deck under traffic, a special surface of modified bitumen was installed by research teams from Appia (company) [fr]. The surface is somewhat...
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Asphalt concrete (redirect from Bituminous surfaced)
and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures...
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In road and highway construction, a gore (or nose in modern British English) is a triangular plot of land as designated when a road forks at the intersection...
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A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. Gravel roads are common in...
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is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface. It is commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic (i.e. pressurized)...
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texts (sometimes bilingual) The meaning and colour-coding of horizontal road surface markings Warning signs in Ireland are yellow and diamond-shaped (as in...
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ones. Virtually all road rollers in use today use diesel power. Road rollers use the weight of the vehicle to compress the surface being rolled (static)...
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power to be put to the ground because there is a larger surface area making contact with the road. This will improve a vehicle's performance when it comes...
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Aquaplaning (redirect from Hydroplaning (road vehicle))
of a road vehicle, aircraft or other wheeled vehicle occurs when a layer of water builds between the wheels of the vehicle and the road surface, leading...
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roadway before it can infiltrate into the road's subbase, increasing the life expectancy of the road surface. Shoulders help provide extra structural support...
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flat erosion surfaces receive the names of peneplain, paleoplain, planation surface or pediplain. An example of erosion surface is road surface erosion which...
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locking up during braking, thereby maintaining tractive contact with the road surface and allowing the driver to maintain more control over the vehicle. ABS...
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traffic. A fixed rubber wiper cleans the surface of the reflectors as they sink below the surface of the road (the base tends to hold water after a shower...
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A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been surfaced or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of...
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Chipseal (redirect from Surface dressing)
used on rural roads carrying lower traffic volumes, and the process is often referred to as asphaltic surface treatment. This type of surface has a variety...
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a statistical measure of magnitude Stone mastic asphalt, a type of road surface Styrene maleic anhydride, a synthetic polymer Submillimeter Array, radio...
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Road racing is a North American term to describe motorsport racing held on a paved road surface. The races can be held either on a closed circuit or on...
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for the suspension to keep the road wheel in contact with the road surface as much as possible, because all the road or ground forces acting on the vehicle...
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Washboarding (redirect from Corrugated road)
periodic, transverse ripples in the surface of gravel and dirt roads. Washboarding occurs in dry, granular road material with repeated traffic, traveling...
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Sodium chloride (redirect from Road salt)
with rock salt and adhered to road surfaces about 40% better than loose rock salt alone. Because it stayed on the road longer, the treatment did not have...
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are widely used on signage and for wayfinding, and are often used in road surface markings. Upward arrows are often used to indicate an increase in a numerical...
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Thermoplastic road marking paint, also called hot melt marking paint, is a kind of powder paint. When applied as road surface markings, a hot melt kettle...
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