Field Performance of High Friction Surfaces

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech Transportation Instituteen
dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorde León Izeppi, Edgaren
dc.contributor.authorFlintsch, Gerardo W.en
dc.contributor.authorMcGhee, Kevin K.en
dc.contributor.departmentCivil and Environmental Engineeringen
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Tech Transportation Instituteen
dc.date.accessed2013-11-21en
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-19T18:30:12Zen
dc.date.available2014-03-19T18:30:12Zen
dc.date.issued2010-06-01en
dc.description.abstractThis report describes an evaluation of high friction surface (HFS) systems. The goal of this evaluation was to develop guidance for agencies when considering whether an HFS was an appropriate solution when addressing specific instances of low skid resistance and/or especially high friction demand. HFS systems are specially designed thin surface treatments that provide significant additional skid resistance of pavements and bridge decks without significantly affecting other qualities of the surface such as noise, ride quality, or durability. This report documents the location and climatic conditions where some of these systems are placed, recounts the experiences reported by the agencies that were responsible for their placement, and summarizes key HFS service-level indicators (friction and texture). The agency experiences include a sample benefit-cost analysis from an installation in Wisconsin that justified an HFS application through crash reductions that resulted following the measured increase in skid resistance. Analysis of the service-level indicators included development of the coefficients necessary to obtain the International Friction Index (IFI) values for each of the tested systems. Review of the IFI values suggested that more experiments with different types of wearing surfaces, to include HFS systems as well as more conventional surface treatments, are necessary in order to demonstrate the validity of the speed gradient and friction coefficients recommended by the ASTM standard for the IFI.en
dc.description.sponsorshipVirginia Department of Transportation 82650en
dc.description.sponsorshipFederal Highway Administration 82650en
dc.format.extent30 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationEdgar de Leon Izeppi, Gerardo W. Flintsch, and Kevin McGhee. "Field Performance of High Friction Surfaces," Virginia Transportation Research Council 530 Edgemont Road Charlottesville, VA 22903, Report No. FHWA/VTRC 10-CR6, June 2010.en
dc.identifier.govdocFHWA/VTRC 10-CR6en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46662en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/10-cr6.pdfen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Researchen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectHigh friction surfacesen
dc.subjectPavement textureen
dc.subjectPavement frictionen
dc.subjectBridge deck frictionen
dc.subjectFriction demanden
dc.subjectRoadway safetyen
dc.titleField Performance of High Friction Surfacesen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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