A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular...

Road surface marking is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information; they are commonly placed...

Tarmacadam is a concrete road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley...

the surface stones smaller than the width of a wheel made for a good running surface. The small surface stones also provided low stress on the road, so...

importance of selecting clean stones for surfacing while excluding vegetable material and clay, resulting in more durable roads. By the late 18th and early 19th...

flat erosion surfaces receive the names of peneplain, paleoplain, planation surface or pediplain. An example of erosion surface is road surface erosion which...

panels. The final step often involves diamond-grinding of the entire road surface to remove any bumps or dips. Without the dowel bar retrofit this grinding...

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians...

the metal road deck under traffic, a special surface of modified bitumen was installed by research teams from Appia (company) [fr]. The surface is somewhat...

and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures...

building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts, also called Belgian blocks, are often referred...

or paving may refer to: Road surface, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways Sidewalk, a walkway along the side of a road, called a pavement in British...

that receive power from a 200-meter strip of transmitters under the road surface. The receivers were able to collect 64.3% of the energy emitted from...

is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface. It is commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic (i.e. pressurized)...

of a road vehicle, aircraft or other wheeled vehicle occurs when a layer of water builds between the wheels of the vehicle and the road surface, leading...

The Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road, also called the Boydton Plank Road, was a hard surfaced road constructed between Boydton and Petersburg, Virginia...

In road and highway construction, a gore (or nose in modern British English) is a triangular plot of land as designated when a road forks at the intersection...

the road surface. Contact patch: The contact patch, or footprint, of the tire, is the area of the tread that is in contact with the road surface. This...

the bowl stops (not where it leaves the road surface), a chalk mark is made at the nearest point on the road and the next throw is taken from behind that...

dirt road or track is a type of unpaved road not paved with asphalt, concrete, brick, or stone; made from the native material of the land surface through...

A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. Gravel roads are common in...

referred to as being stuck in the rut. Ruts in gravel roads can be removed by grading the road surface. Ruts in asphalt pavement can be filled with asphalt...

texts (sometimes bilingual) The meaning and colour-coding of horizontal road surface markings Warning signs in Ireland are yellow and diamond-shaped (as in...

roadway before it can infiltrate into the road's subbase, increasing the life expectancy of the road surface. Shoulders help provide extra structural support...

for the suspension to keep the road wheel in contact with the road surface as much as possible, because all the road or ground forces acting on the vehicle...

with rock salt and adhered to road surfaces about 40% better than loose rock salt alone. Because it stayed on the road longer, the treatment did not have...

caused by equipment failure, improper braking, or adverse road conditions such as an icy road surface. In extreme circumstances, a driver may attempt to jackknife...

(resin) Road surface Tar Tarmac Sealcoat Stamped asphalt The Building News and Engineering Journal contains photographs of the following roads where Clarmac...

ice on a surface, for example on streets or on lakes. The ice itself is not black, but visually transparent, allowing the often black road below to be...

ones. Virtually all road rollers in use today use diesel power. Road rollers use the weight of the vehicle to compress the surface being rolled (static)...