ASTM Int'l Vehicle-Pavement Standard Focuses on Skid Resistance - ASTM E 2340
July 2, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Airport operators, military pavement maintenance personnel, transportation regulatory agencies and state highway departments will benefit from the approval of an ASTM standard for measuring skid resistance.
ASTM E 2340 - Test Method for Measuring the Skid Resistance of Pavements and Other Trafficked Surfaces Using a Continuous Reading, Fixed-Slip Technique was developed by members of Subcommittee E17.21 on Field Methods for Measuring Tire Pavement Friction, under the jurisdiction of ASTM International Committee E17 on Vehicle-Pavement Systems.
"The transportation industry and, in particular, the international aviation community, have been in urgent need of a standard such as [ASTM] E 2340," said Tom Yager, a retired senior research engineer and an E17.21 member.
"This standard will improve the reliability and accuracy of continuous friction measuring devices."
The use of ASTM E 2340 by the transportation industry potentially will help reduce skidding accidents on both roads and runways by identifying pavements that have become too slippery for safe operations, said ASTM International.
According to Yager, civil and military aviation organizations that use a device of the type specified in ASTM E 2340 are able to provide much more meaningful management schedules for pavement maintenance. In turn, improved pavement maintenance can reduce the frequency of skidding accidents.
Subcommittee E17.21 members hope ASTM E 2340 will be used both in the U.S. and abroad to identify such hazardous conditions before accidents occur.
"Worldwide, there are many different designs of continuous reading, fixed-slip measuring devices," said Delia Harverson, a member of Committee E17. "A standard that delineates the essential common principles to which they all should conform is of genuine international importance. We hope this standard will lead to more participation in Subcommittee E17.21 from highway and aviation community representatives both in and outside the U.S."
Pilots, airport operators, airframe and ground vehicle manufacturers and transportation regulatory agencies are encouraged to participate alongside academia and pavement maintenance organizations.
Source: ASTM International.