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A falling weight deflectometer, towed by a truck. A falling weight deflectometer (FWD) is a testing device used by civil engineers to evaluate the physical properties of pavement in highways, local roads, airport pavements, harbor areas, railway tracks and elsewhere. The data acquired from FWDs is primarily used to estimate pavement structural ...
Another example is the use of a falling weight deflectometer (FWD) to non-destructively test existing pavements. Calculation of pavement layer strengths can be performed from the resulting deflection data. The two methods - empirical or mechanistic is used to determine pavement layer thicknesses.
Falling weight deflectometer, in civil engineering; Fixed wireless data, in telecommunications; Four-wheel drive (often 4WD), of motor vehicles; Free World Dialup, a voice over IP network; Front-wheel drive, of motor vehicles
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Structural indices derived from falling weight deflectometer data; In image analysis: Shape factor (image analysis and microscopy) including: The compactness measure of a shape; In statistics: The shape parameter, sometimes referred to as the shape factor, of some probability distributions
Joule's apparatus for measuring the mechanical equivalent of heat in which the "work" of the falling weight is converted into the "heat" of agitation in the water. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, had observed the frictional heat generated by boring cannon at the arsenal in Munich, Bavaria, circa 1797. Rumford immersed a cannon barrel in water ...
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