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.
Conference Proceedings: FHWA Vehicle Crash Analysis. Held on July 8-9, 1996
1997
155 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
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Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Meetings , Crash tests , Accident simulation , Models , Finite element method , Highway safety , Roadside hazards , Vehicle fixed object collisions , Guardrails , Supports , Simulation models , Comparisons , Barrier collision tests , Evaluation , Impact tests , Collision simulation , Collision models , DYNA3D Computer code , MELT(Modified Ecentric Loader Breakaway Cable Terminal)
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