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Why Unpaved Roads Get Washboarded

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Unpaved roads have a tendency to regular corrugations in their surface, often known as washboards.

Unpaved roads are cheaper to build but have higher maintenance costs in heavy traffic.

For granular materials like sand or gravel, these patterns form any time a wheel moves faster than a certain speed.

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