Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
6-1-2011
Abstract
Evaluating the crash test is one of the most important stages of providing safety on roads. Nowadays, two kinds of equipments named surrogate devices are used to evaluate guardrails specifically, pendulum and bogie vehicle. This paper provides a review of usage these equipments and procedure to test guardrails. Advantages of each method are analyzed and also for each method, suitable application is recommended. The result of tests shows that, the bogie and pendulum tests are suitable surrogate devices to evaluate the performance of the guardrail.
Keywords
Guardrail Performance, Pendulum Test, Bogie Vehicle
Divisions
sch_civ
Event Title
Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Event Location
Jeju, Korea
Event Dates
20-23 Jun 2011
Event Type
conference
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