Use of Satellite Image Referencing Algorithms to Characterize Asphaltic Concrete Mixtures

نویسندگان

  • Scott A. Starks
  • Soheil Nazarian
  • Vladik Kreinovich
  • Joseph Adidhela
چکیده

| A natural way to test the structural integrity of a pavement is to send signals with different frequencies through the pavement and compare the results with the signals passing through an ideal pavement. For this comparison, we must determine how, for the corresponding mixture, the elasticity E depends on the frequency f in the range from 0.1 to 10 5 Hz. It is very expensive to perform measurements in high frequency area (above 20 Hz). To avoid these measurements, we can use the fact that for most of these mixtures, when we change a temperature, the new dependence changes simply by scaling. Thus, instead of performing expensive measurements for diierent frequencies, we can measure the dependence of E on moderate frequencies f for diierent temperatures , and then combine the resulting curves into a single \master" curve. In this paper, we show how fuzzy techniques can help to automate this \combination".

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تاریخ انتشار 2002