Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), as part of an ongoing effort to improve the modeling of vehicular collisions with roadside safety hardware, sponsored university research on finite element (FE) modeling of vehicle impact with a variety of safety structures. To culminate these efforts, a conference was held July 8-9, 1996, to allow the authors to present their findings and to discuss the use of DYNA3D, the FE code of choice for analyzing vehicle impacts. The attached proceedings are a compilation of the seven university research papers commissioned for this study. Each commissioned university study applied the DYNA3D code to model vehicle impact with a different roadside safety structure, comparing these results with results of an actual crash test to validate the model's behavior. FE modeling scenarios included vehicle impact of a modified thrie-beam guardrail, development and evaluation of a C-1500 pickup truck model for roadside hardware impact simulation, and FE analysis of a slip-base luminaire support. Results are generally promising and of interest to those working in the roadside safety arena and to any others using the DYNA3D code.


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    Validation of FHWA Crash Models for Rural Intersections: Lessons Learned

    Oh, Jutaek / Lyon, Craig / Washington, Simon et al. | Transportation Research Record | 2003


    The Future FHWA - FHWA sources

    Online Contents | 1996



    News - FHWA News

    Online Contents | 2002


    FHWA Assistance to Russia

    Schacknies, Bert | Online Contents | 1994