A study of the deflections of metal road guardrail elements

Transport

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 225-233

  Prentkovskis, Olegas ^a   Beljatynskij, Andrey ^b   Prentkovskiene, Rasa ^a   Dyakov, Ivan ^c   Dabulevičiene, Laima ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c ULYANOVSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beam; Deflections; Deformation; Finite element; Guardrail; Post; Simulation; Traffic accident; Traffic safety; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CRASHWORTHINESS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; METALS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ROADS AND STREETS; SHOULDERS (ROAD); STATISTICS; TRANSPORTATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TUNGSTEN; VEHICLES;

BEAM; BEAM DEFLECTION; DEFORMATION PROCESS; METAL POSTS; POST; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DATAS; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

GUARD RAILS;

EID: 70349596913     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1648-4142.2009.24.225-233     Document Type: Article

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