Impact of Shocks on Cargo Securing During the Road Transport

Abstract

The paper deals with the impact of shocks on cargo securing during the road freight transport. Commonly used methods of cargo securing do not take into account the different quality of roads, therefore the cargo securing doesn´t have to comply with principles of safe fastening. The paper highligths the different values of shocks and inertia forces on different quality roads (highway and 3rd class road) based on data of conducted transport experiments. The resulting shocks (values of acceleration coefficients) are statistically significantly higher on 3rd class road than on highway even at half average speed. The optimization of calculation using acceleration coefficients and their correlation with the resulting inertia forces is included in separated part. The output of the paper is a methodical procedure to optimize the cargo securing during the road transport.