Vibration Serviceability Evaluation Under Typical Local Deformations of Pavement

To study the influence of local deformation of asphalt pavement on riding quality, the vibration serviceability under three types of local deformation, joint faulting type, double-section type and curved surface type, which are common in pavement maintenance management, was evaluated. Firstly, simplified profile model of local deformations are established, and vertical vibration accelerations of human body with the excitation of local deformations are derived, based on the quarter car model. Then, the vertical accelerations are filtered with designed frequency-weighted filter, and instantaneous frequency-weighted accelerations are hence obtained, root-mean-square accelerations under different working conditions are calculated, and weighted vibration serviceability evaluation in time-domain is achieved. Finally, evaluation criteria of local deformations are proposed. The results show that, root-mean-square acceleration is directly proportional to height difference of local deformation. Under the same deformation degree, the driving experience of double-section deformation is the worst. When local deformation height difference of joint faulting, double-section and curved surface reaches 4.76, 2.78 and 3.26 cm, respectively, riding quality reaches extremely uncomfortable states.