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Term of the Road Dictionary

bridge WIM [system]

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
  • Theme : Operations Transport Vehicles
  • Definition : WIM using an instrumented bridge (measuring strains) as a large scale. Note: the responses measured in some of the bridge elements are used by software to determine the gross weights and sometimes the axle loads of vehicles crossing the bridge [COST 323].

dynamisches Wägen auf Brücken

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / German
  • Theme : Betrieb Transport Fahrzeuge
  • Definition : Wägen von Fahrzeugen im Fliessverkehr unter Verwendung einer instrumentierten Brücke als Waage mit grossen Abmessungen. Anmerkung: die in gewissen Brückenelementen gemessenen Reaktionen werden mit Hilfe von Computerprogrammen zur Bestimmung der Gesamtgewichte und z.T. der Achslasten von Fahrzeugen verwendet [COST 323].