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BUMP INTEGRATOR
JUNE- 2015
BUB/CTE/2014-15
Date: 05-06-2015
CONDITIONS OF ISSUE OF CALIBRATION CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Automatic Road Unevenness Recorder No.
STECO-062, belongs to Highway Engineering Section, Department of Civil Engineering,
Bangalore University, Bangalore is calibrated in the Centre for Transportation Engineering,
Bangalore
as the standard
equipment. The results presented in this report is valid from June-2015 to June 2017 or
5000 Kms
this certificate
CONTENTS
Sl.
No.
Title
1.0
INTRODUCTION
2.0
3.0
TRL MERLIN
4.0
5.0
ANALYSIS
BUB/CTE/2015-16
Date: 5th JUNE- 2015
Sub: Calibration of Automatic Road Unevenness Recorder No. STECO-091
Ref : Letter No. Testing/2007-08, dated 15-05-2007
Project Manager,M/s Patel-KNR (JV), Keela Urappanur (Village), Thirumangalam,
Dindigul Road, Thirumangalam-625 706
{Project: *: 4 Laning and Strengthening of Existing 2 lane of Madurai- Kanyakumari
Section of NH7, Package 39,Km 0/ 000 to 48/817 in the State of Tamilnadu *}
.
1.0
INTRODUCTION
The Bump Integrator (BI) a response type unevenness meter, which is towed by a
vehicle to monitor pavement unevenness. It records the displacement per unit distance traveled,
usually in terms of counts/km.
A well calibrated unevenness meter which is properly operated, will give accurate and
reproducible data at a very low cost. However, a poorly calibrated meter will not only give
questionable data it June lead to incorrect decisions being made.
The sections should be at least 200-300 m long with adequate geometry before and
after the section to ensure that they can be travelled at a constant speed;
the unevenness should be fairly uniform along the length insofar as there are not
short sub-sections with high unevenness interspersed with sub-sections containing
lower unevenness;
the surface should not be broken (i.e. potholes or bad depressions) so that the
they should have low traffic volumes so that the unevenness will not change
significantly over time and so that the crew will survive the calibration survey;
One should not have combinations of rigid and flexible or machine laid and hand Laid
sections since these can have different unevenness properties although this is not
always possible in some countries if one cover the full range of unevenness:
The wheel paths should be permanently marked for profiling using nails and painting
them white. During recalibration the crew can then readily remark the wheel paths.
The sections should be profiled using one of the techniques below:
TRL Beam;
DIPSTICK;
Walking Profilometer;
TRL MARLIN,
the bottom of the wheel and the rear foot. If the road were uneven, the probe would usually be
displaced above or below the line.
To measure the displacements, the probe is attached to a pivoted arm, at the other end
of which is a pointer, which moves over a chart. The arm is pivoted close to the probe so that a
movement of the probe of 1mm will produce a pointer movement of 5 mm or 1 cm.
The unevenness of a section is measured by wheeling the MERLIN along the road with
the handles raised. Once every wheel revolution, the handles are lowered so that the probe and
rear foot touch the ground and the resulting pointer position is recorded as a cross on a chart.
Two hundred measurements are made to produce a histogram, which means the MERLIN
surveys require approximately 450m long calibration sections. The width of the central 90
percent of the histogram is measured from the chart and this can be converted directly into
unevenness.
The D value is converted into IRI using the following equation (for use on Asphaltic
Concrete surface).
IRI = 0.593+0.0471 x D
The IRI value is converted into UI using the following equation.
UI=630 x (IRI)1.12
Where
IRI= International Roughness Index, m/Km
UI = Unevenness Index expressed in mm/km for Asphaltic Concrete
D = the roughness in terms of the MERLIN scale measured in mm.
5.0 Analysis
The raw Bump Integrator counts per kilometer obtained from the calibration survey are
correlated with the UI values obtained from MERLIN. This equation is used to convert the
raw Bump Integrator counts into UI in mm/km.
Results from Calibration Test Sections
Section
Number.
1
2
3
4
5
Merlin Results
D in mm
59.8
98.5
123.7
95.2
67.6
UI in mm/km
2489
4021
5056
3886
2789
The general equation used for the calibration of the raw counts in terms of UI can be
summarized as follows:
UI = A0 x RAW + A1
Where
UI = Roughness calibrated to International Roughness Index in m/km
RAW = Raw Bump Integrator counts in mm/km
A0 = Regression coefficient
A1 = Constant
The resulting regression relationship and the regression equation are presented below.
Validity: June 2015 June 2017 or 5000 kms whichever occurs earlier.
Therefore, the Unevenness Index value can be obtained from the raw Bump Integrator
counts by applying the calibration equation.
UI = 0.9818 * RAW 20.63
Where,
UI = Unevenness Index in mm/km
RAW = Raw Bump Integrator counts in mm/km.