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{{Short description|Rule in road engineering}} ...estion of how the size of the axle load affects the service life of a road pavement. For this purpose, a test track was built in [[Ottawa, Illinois]], which co ...

...f critical embankment velocity in railway engineering.png|thumb|In railway engineering, increasing the velocity of moving vehicles leads to a serious [[resonance] ...s concept and the prediction method was put forward by scholars in [[civil engineering]] communities before 1980 <ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Genin |first1=J. |last ...

The '''geometric design of roads''' is the branch of [[highway engineering]] concerned with the positioning of the physical elements of the roadway ac ...pe or [[banked turn|banking]]. Cross sections also show drainage features, pavement structure and other items outside the category of geometric design. ...

...the contacting bodies' surfaces. Application areas of this scale are tire-pavement interaction, railway wheel-rail interaction, roller bearing analysis, etc. ...gical systems]] (e.g., investigate the origin of [[friction]]) and for the engineering of advanced devices like [[atomic force microscope]]s and [[MEMS]] devices. ...

In the fields of engineering and construction, '''resilience''' is the ability to absorb or avoid damage The concept of resilience originated from engineering and then gradually applied to other fields. It is related to that of vulner ...

...nded into [[Traffic collision reconstruction|accident reconstruction]] and engineering.<ref name=":0"/> ...it in time to stop.''' Assuming you have good tires, good brakes, and dry pavement: At 55 mph, it takes about 400 feet to react and bring the vehicle to a com ...