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PPF Specification
ProVAL's native PPF format is used to store imported profiles. Profile software developers or profiler manufacturers may find it useful to produce profile data in this format.
The ASTM International specification "E 2560-07: Standard Specification for Data Format for Pavement Profile" is based on the ProVAL data file specification 1.02. ProVAL 2.7 currently uses the recent 1.03 version, while ProVAL 3.0 uses 1.05.
Basic Readings
Little Book of Profiling by Mike Sayers and Steve Karamihas of UMTRI.
Publications related to ProVAL
George K. Chang, Steven M. Karamihas, Robert Otto Rasmussen, David Merritt, Mark Swanlund, QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF JOINTED CONCRETE PAVEMENT CURLING AND WARPING ON PAVEMENT UNEVENNESS, 6th symposium on pavement surface characteristics (SURF), Slovenia, 2008.
Profiling Equipments
- Ames Engineering
- APR Consultants, Inc.
- Dynatest
- Greenwood Engineering
- ICC (Intl. Cybernetics Corp.)
- Mandli (Scanman)
- Pathway Services, Inc.
- Fugro Roadware (ARAN)
- SSI (Surface Systems & Instruments), LLC
- James Cox & Sons
- Paveset America
- Rainhart Co.
- FACE (Dipstick)
- Acuity Research Inc.
- Pavemetrics, Inc. (formerly INO)
- LMI Selcom
- Phoenix Scientific (Pavement Profile Scanner)