Author(s)

J. Markova, M. Kalinsky, P. Marek, O. Janda

Abstract

The design and verification of the new types of road safety barriers suffers from several deficiencies including a lack of prescriptive models for impact forces caused by various types of road vehicles. For specification of the load-bearing members of barriers, alternative procedures including dynamic, non-linear and probabilistic analyses may be applied. Detailed analysis is based on crash test simulations using models of vehicles based on the finite element method.

Keywords

road barrier, impact forces, crash test, crash simulation, models of vehicles, reliability