The report is the first in a series of four reports based on a comprehensive set of data relating to a random sample of 4216 heavy goods vehicles collected during 22 axle-load surveys conducted at 18 survey sites with locations throughout the County of Cheshire. The survey sites were chosen carefully to represent eight classes of road and four ranges of heavy commercial vehicle flow. The survey data has been used to determine the incidence, magnitude and damaging effect of overloading at both the individual sites and, collectively, using the whole data set. The effects of both gross and axle overloading have been investigated for up to nine classes of heavy goods vehicle and ten body types. An assessment has been made of the reduction in pavement damage that would result if excess loads were transferred from overloaded vehicles to those less heavily laden and the tandem and tri-axle combinations were assumed to share loads equally.


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    Title :

    Loading Characteristics of Heavy Goods Vehicles and Their Affect on the Structural Design of Highway Pavements. Report 1. The Overloading of Heavy Goods Vehicles in Cheshire


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1987


    Size :

    59 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English