The study investigated the impact performance of inertial barrel and GREAT impact attenuator systems using full scale crash testing of small and large test vehicles. In all, 20 tests were performed: 16 with inertial barrels and 4 with GREAT system. The 16 inertial barrel tests studied large car versus small car, angled versus head-on positions, pea gravel versus sand fill material, frozen versus nonfrozen crash tests, loose sand versus bagged sand and two different brand attenuator barrels. The four GREAT tests using a six-bay system studied head-on versus angled positions and large car versus small car impacts. All tests used instrumented dummies and a NHTSA digital data tape was generated for each (with the exception of Tests E-01 and E-02). Results of the program showed small car performance to be generally acceptable when using NCHRP 230 and dummy analysis procedures. The large car produced higher decelerations and in some cases the values exceeded the limits specified.
Impact Attenuators: A Current Engineering Evaluation
1986
285 pages
Report
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English
Impact Attenuators: A Current Engineering Evaluation
NTIS | 1986
|Online Contents | 1998
NTRS | 1995