Abstract: A method is developed to estimate the mean texture depth (MTD) value, which to some extent represents pavement quality, using measurements from a microphone mounted underneath a moving vehicle. Such measurements will include ...

Abstract: A method is presented to improve the estimates of material properties, dimensions, and other model parameters for linear vibrating systems. The method improves the estimates of a single model parameter of interest by finding ...

Abstract: Over the past century, a number of scalar metrics have been proposed to measure the damping of a complex system. The present work explores these metrics in the context of finite element models. Perhaps the most common is ...