Pendulum impact tests on steel W-beam guardrails

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 319-325

  Bank, Lawrence C ^a   Yin, Jiansheng ^b   Gentry, T Russell ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b Catholic Univ of America ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; IMPACT TESTING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

PENDULUM IMPACT TESTS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE DYNA3D;

GUARD RAILS;

EID: 0032122729     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(1998)124:4(319)     Document Type: Article

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