Difficulties in Translating Road-Engineering Texts from Russian into English/German Based on Materials from Road Builders’ Websites

GPR is an effective non-destructive testing technology. This paper introduces its composition principle and operation method, explains the process of parameter setting and image optimization, obtains the dielectric constant of 10000 points, compares it with the density, and then obtains the uniformity distribution law of construction quality based on image. By calibrating the thickness of the road surface, the effective detection of road diseases can be realized, and the theoretical basis and practical application conditions of GPR technology can be clarified.

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Analysis of the Safety Factors of Municipal Road Undercrossing Existing Bridge Based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Methods

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/03611981211031887 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 036119812110318

Author(s):

Yonghong Yang ◽

Yu Chen ◽

Zude Tang

Keyword(s):

Safety Assessment ◽

Evaluation Method ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Safety Evaluation ◽

Safety Factors ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Road Engineering ◽

Existing Bridges ◽

Hierarchy Process ◽

Engineering Projects

Increasing traffic volume and insufficient road lanes often require municipal roads to be reconstructed and expanded. Where a road passes under a bridge, the reconstruction and expansion project will inevitably have an impact on the bridge. To evaluate the safety impact of road engineering projects on bridges, this paper evaluates the safety of the roads and ancillary facilities of highway bridges involved in municipal road engineering projects. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the safety factors of municipal roads undercrossing existing bridges, a fuzzy comprehensive analytic hierarchy process (AHP) evaluation method for the influence of road construction on the safety of existing bridges is proposed. First, AHP is used to select 11 evaluation factors. Second, the target layer, criterion layer, and index layer of evaluation factors are established, then a safety evaluation factor system is formed. The three-scale AHP model is used to determine the weight of assessment indexes. Third, through the fuzzy comprehensive AHP evaluation model, the fuzzy hierarchical comprehensive evaluation is carried out for the safety assessment index system. Finally, the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is applied to the engineering example of a municipal road undercrossing an existing expressway bridge. The comprehensive safety evaluation of the existing bridge reflects the practicability and feasibility of the method. It is expected that, with further development, the method will improve the decision-making process in bridge safety assessment systems.

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Application of Air - ground Cooperative Survey in Road Engineering

10.47939/et.v2i9.164 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Road Engineering ◽

Cooperative Survey

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Quantitative and Qualitative Research on the Waste from the Mining of Rock Raw Materials in Lower Silesia

Minerals ◽

10.3390/min8090375 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 375 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Urszula Kaźmierczak ◽

Jan Blachowski ◽

Justyna Górniak-Zimroz ◽

Herbert Wirth

Keyword(s):

Raw Materials ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Geological Structure ◽

Mining Activity ◽

Road Engineering ◽

Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽

Sw Poland ◽

Natural Aggregates ◽

Graphical Presentation ◽

Lower Silesia

The Lower Silesia area in SW Poland is characterized by a geological structure that is conducive to mining activity. The exploitation of rock raw materials plays an important role in this sector of the economy. By the end of 2017, there were in total approximately 400 current concessions for the exploitation of rock raw materials in the analysed area (Polish Geological Institute, MIDAS database—Management and Protection System of Polish Mineral Resources). The conducted mining activity results in waste, which in the greatest amount occurs in the process of obtaining crushed road and construction aggregates, natural aggregates, carbonate raw materials for the cement and lime industry, as well as stone elements for construction and road engineering. At the end of 2016, the mining plants accumulated 26,569,600 Mg of waste. As part of the European Regions Toward Circular Economy (CircE) project, research was conducted on the volume and composition of the mining waste of rock raw materials in the years 2010–2016 within Lower Silesia. This research used the methods of statistical, descriptive and spatial analysis to identify mining plants with the highest potential for using their wastes. In the course of this study, 6 mining plants with the highest potential of using their waste for industrial production purposes were selected. In order to objectively select these plants, the methodology of qualitative multi-criteria analysis was developed, and 7 criteria were selected for assessing the economic potential of using waste from the mining of rock raw materials. An additional result of this research is a database and graphical presentation of changes in the spatial distribution of generated waste in the Lower Silesia region in the years ranging from 2010 to 2016.

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Road Engineering Optimization Based on Driving Reaction

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.579-580.841 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 579-580 ◽

pp. 841-844

Author(s):

Zhao Cao ◽

Xiao Wu ◽

Qing Yang

Keyword(s):

Traffic Safety ◽

Safety Issue ◽

Heart Beat ◽

Driving Safety ◽

Response Analysis ◽

Vehicle Speed ◽

Force Coefficient ◽

Slope Length ◽

Road Engineering ◽

Positive Correlation

With the increasingly outstanding of the traffic safety issue, the human factors in People-Vehicle-Road System are being emphasized gradually. Takes Jinhua suburb asphalt mountain road (two-lane, multiple steep slopes) for example, this study focuses on road engineering response analysis on driving reaction, design optimization of road engineering base on driving response. A driver over 3 driving years steered 5-seat car in 4 kilometers long experimental road, kept the vehicle speed (V) under 40km/h. Heartbeat rate of the driver was monitored by dynamic Holter through driving process. The analysis shows that there is a linear positive correlation between Heart beat growth rate (Ni) and V, a nearly positive correlation between lateral force coefficient (μ) and Ni, and nearly inversely proportional between plane curve radius (R) and slope (i). It should decrease R appropriately when road slope (i) much sharply in road alignment design. There is a polynomial relation between Ni, V and R. As R increases, both Ni and V reduce firstly, and then rise. When R ranges from 240 to 500 meter, stress gradually ease; while R exceeds 500 meter, driving reaction tension gradually rise. R<550 m, i <6% and slope length under 300 m in the experimental road. When instructional speed <40km/h, then Ni was 30.2% and μ was 0.25. Its benefit for driving safety to keep drivers in appropriate tension in such situation.

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