Tool and Method for Testing the Resistance of the Snow Road Cover to Destruction

Abstract

The paper presents the design of the tool for efficient determination of the hardness of the snow road coating. The tool increases vertical positioning of the rod with the tip through replacement of the rod slide friction of the ball element by roll friction of its outer bearing race in order to enhance the accuracy of determining the hardness of the snow-ice road covering. A special feature of the tool consists in possibility of creating different impact energy by the change of the lifting height of the rod with the tip (indenter) and the exchangeable load mass. This allows the study of the influence of the tip shape and the impact energy on the snow strength parameters in a wide range, extends the scope of application of the durometer and makes possible to determine the strength of snow-ice formations by indenters with various geometrical parameters depending on climatic conditions.