Semi-trailer truck

Energy and Environmental Markets

Published in Anco S. Blazev, Power Generation and the Environment, 2021

A semi-trailer truck is a large vehicle that consists of a towing engine, known as a tractor in the U.S. and truck in many other places, attached to one or more trailers. Those vehicles carry freight, also known as semi, tractor-trailer, big rig, or 18-wheeler in the United States; or transport in Canada; prime mover in Australia; and articulated lorry, or artic in the U.K.

Continuous strain monitoring of an instrumented pavement section

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Published in International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2019

Ngoc Son Duong, Juliette Blanc, Pierre Hornych, Benoît Bouveret, Jean Carroget, Yann Le feuvre

In the French pavement design method, as in many other methods, simplified pavement layer interface conditions are considered: the interfaces are assumed either fully bonded or fully sliding. In a first step, calculations have been made with ALIZE, with these two assumptions, and with pavement layer moduli corresponding to those determined from the initial on-site measurements (see §3), adjusted for temperature. The calculations have been carried for a five-axle semi-trailer truck, with axle loads corresponding to those used for the on-site tests, and a total load of 43 tons.

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