Road surface temperature influence on tire/pavement

close proximity noise

M. Bueno, J. Luong, U. Viñuela, F. Terán and S.E. Paje
Laboratory of Acoustics Applied to Civil Engineering (LA2IC)
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)
Department of Applied Physics, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
moises.bueno@uclm.es

INTRODUCTION TIRE/PAVEMENT SOUND MEASUREMENTS

During the last years the LA2IC has been developing different studies
focused on carry out acoustical characterization of different road In order to asses the influence of
surfaces, research on the mechanisms involved in the sound the surface temperature on the
generation and on the design of pavements that generate lower levels acoustical behaviour of the
of tire/road noise. The aim has been to investigate the effect of the semidense pavement selected,
surface temperature on the rolling sound from a bituminous pavement close proximity measurements
measured in close proximity to the tire/road contact patch. were performed throughout a
morning with a pavement
temperature interval of 30ºC

EXPERIMENTAL SET UP
The close proximity sound levels (LCPtr) obtained in the different
measurement at different surface temperatures show a good linear
relationship with the temperature of the pavement where -0.06 dB(A)/ºC
The test section selected for this study
is an urban track of 400 m length with a Significant differences between
semidense asphalt surface type S-12 the tire/pavement sound spectra
(Spanish denomination) with a rough associated with the different
texture and 6-12% air void content. surface temperature are
obtained in the range of
The measurements of rolling noise have been carried out with the trailer frequencies since 400 Hz. This
Tiresonic Mk4 LA2IC-UCLM. The sound pressure levels emitted by the variation of temperature is
rolling of the reference tire were measured by two microphones (front and connected with the hardness of
rear positions) located close to the contact patch and mounted on a the asphalt pavement. so the
semianechoic chamber which isolates from the external traffic noise or wind mechanisms involved in the
noise. The reference tire selected in this research was the Pirelli P6000 sound generation due to impacts
205/55 and the speed selected was 50 km/h. Surface road temperature was and vibrations can be affected
measured with an infrared sensor thermometer. The above mentioned behaviour could be less evident in the mechanism
associates to air pumping. This aspect can be in connection with a
possible decrease in the friction mechanisms.

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13-16 June 2010 Lisbon Portugal