scholarly journals Reconstruction of the landscape section “G. Potiomkin’s garden” in the dendrological park “Oleksandria” of NAS of Ukraine

Author(s):  
I. L. Mordatenko ◽  
N. M. Doyko ◽  
O. V. Silenko

The historical landscape area “G. Potemkin’s Garden” is located in the western part of the park and is one of the components of the “ Druzhnii Garden”. After conducting an inventory of woody plants, it was found that the plantings of the Potemkin Garden are represented by 19 species belonging to 2 divisions — Pinophyta (2 species from 2 families and 2 genera) and Magnoliophyta (17 species from 13 families and 16 genera). The dimensions of Potemkin' s garden were specified, the boundaries of Potemkin' s garden were delineated, the center of the flowerbed, the foundation of the rotunda and the walls of the garden were excavated, and the road surface was marked.

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
A. R. Williams

Abstract This is a summary of work by the author and his colleagues, as well as by others reported in the literature, that demonstrate a need for considering a vehicle, its tires, and the road surface as a system. The central theme is interaction at the footprint, especially that of truck tires. Individual and interactive effects of road and tires are considered under the major topics of road aggregate (macroscopic and microscopic properties), development of a novel road surface, safety, noise, rolling resistance, riding comfort, water drainage by both road and tire, development of tire tread compounds and a proving ground, and influence of tire wear on wet traction. A general conclusion is that road surfaces have both the major effect and the greater potential for improvement.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1402
Author(s):  
Taehee Lee ◽  
Yeohwan Yoon ◽  
Chanjun Chun ◽  
Seungki Ryu

Poor road-surface conditions pose a significant safety risk to vehicle operation, especially in the case of autonomous vehicles. Hence, maintenance of road surfaces will become even more important in the future. With the development of deep learning-based computer image processing technology, artificial intelligence models that evaluate road conditions are being actively researched. However, as the lighting conditions of the road surface vary depending on the weather, the model performance may degrade for an image whose brightness falls outside the range of the learned image, even for the same road. In this study, a semantic segmentation model with an autoencoder structure was developed for detecting road surface along with a CNN-based image preprocessing model. This setup ensures better road-surface crack detection by adjusting the image brightness before it is input into the road-crack detection model. When the preprocessing model was applied, the road-crack segmentation model exhibited consistent performance even under varying brightness values.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 922-933
Author(s):  
Qing’e Wang ◽  
Kai Zheng ◽  
Huanan Yu ◽  
Luwei Zhao ◽  
Xuan Zhu ◽  
...  

AbstractOil leak from vehicles is one of the most common pollution types of the road. The spilled oil could be retained on the surface and spread in the air voids of the road, which results in a decrease in the friction coefficient of the road, affects driving safety, and causes damage to pavement materials over time. Photocatalytic degradation through nano-TiO2 is a safe, long-lasting, and sustainable technology among the many methods for treating oil contamination on road surfaces. In this study, the nano-TiO2 photocatalytic degradation effect of road surface oil pollution was evaluated through the lab experiment. First, a glass dish was used as a substrate to determine the basic working condition of the test; then, a test method considering the impact of different oil erosion degrees was proposed to eliminate the effect of oil erosion on asphalt pavement and leakage on cement pavement, which led to the development of a lab test method for the nano-TiO2 photocatalytic degradation effect of oil pollution on different road surfaces.


2021 ◽  
pp. 100077
Author(s):  
Samim Mustafa ◽  
Hidehiko Sekiya ◽  
Aya Hamajima ◽  
Iwao Maeda ◽  
Shuichi Hirano

The paper presents the mathematical model and the technique of computer imitation of a vehicle movement on bend. Research of roadability and stability of the truck and the schedules illustrating change of characteristics of the steered movement have been obtained. The critical modes of the movement causing separation of wheels from road surface and side slippage have been defined. Speed limit of the steered movement on trajectory of the set curvature have been determined. Keywords vehicle, wheel, cross and longitudinal reactions of the road, inertia force, inertial moment, trajectory of a vehicle movement, angles of withdrawal of wheels, spring weight angle of heel, side slippage, vehicle drift


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongliang He ◽  
Weijun Yang

This study uses a test section of a highway, a study object, to explore the effect of thickness of the gravel base and asphalt layer on the vertical deformation of the road surface. The thickness of the asphalt layer and graded gravel base is changed. The nonlinear description equation of the relationship between the thickness (h1) of the asphalt layer and the vertical deformation (d1) is established: d1=a41−b4h1. The thickness of the asphalt pavement is then determined to reduce vertical deformation. Numerical calculation shows that the maximum vertical deformation of the foundation is within 8 mm, which is less than the 15 mm maximum vertical deformation of the embankment. This level meets the design requirements.


Author(s):  
Daša Fullová ◽  
Dušan Jandačka ◽  
Daniela Ďurčanská ◽  
Adriana Eštoková ◽  
Jitka Hegrová

Author(s):  
K. Sriram ◽  
K. Anirudh ◽  
B. Jayanth ◽  
J. Anjaneyulu

The main objective of the Suspension of a vehicle is to maximize the contact between the vehicle tires and the road surface, provide steering stability and provide safe vehicle control in all conditions, evenly support the weight of the vehicle, transfer the loads to springs, and guaranteeing the comfort of the driver by absorbing and dampening shock. This paper discusses the kinematic design of a double a-arm Suspension system for an FSAE Vehicle. The hardpoint’s location can be determined using this procedure to simulate motion in any kinematic simulation software. Here, Optimum Kinematics is used as kinematic simulation software, and the results are verified using Msc Adams simulation. The method illustrated deals with the basics of Kinematics which helps to predict the characteristics of the Suspension even before simulating it in the kinematic simulation software.


2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgita Židanavičiūtė ◽  
Audrius Vaitkus

The data were collected by researchers at the Road Research Institute, in a study investigating the impact of differentfactors on road surface strength. In this statistical analysis, we apply linear mixed models (LMMs) to clustered longitudinal data, inwhich the units of analysis (points in the road) are nested within clusters (sample of four different road segments), and repeatedmeasures of road strength in these different points are collected over time with unequally spaced time intervals. The data arebalanced – each cluster has the same number of units, which are measured at the same number of time points. Because of correlateddata and different clusters in which data could be correlated, linear regression models are not appropriate here, and therefore linearmixed models are applied.


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