The use of roadside safety barriers in Italy has changed in recent years: the number of installed devices has increased, and so have their stiffness and resistance. These changes were necessary because early barrier design was inadequate to contain and redirect heavy vehicles. The change in barrier design led to an increase in stiffness and resistance; consequently, the action transferred to the structure by the device increased. The need for resistance on the bridge slabs can be too high because the peculiar action of the roadside barriers was not adequately taken into account in the oldest bridge design codes. In addition, characterizing the actions transferred to the bridge slab is difficult because of the dynamic nature of vehicle impacts on roadside barriers. Given the impossibility of performing a full-scale laboratory test for every bridge deck, the use of computational mechanics applied to dynamic impact/interaction problems is one of the best ways to establish these actions in the project phase. Research was conducted into the use of a three-dimensional finite element model of the bridge slab-barrier-vehicle system to perform a numerical simulation of the impact, according to the procedure used for the roadside barrier homologation crash test, described in the European Standard EN 1317.

Dynamic actions on bridge slabs due to heavy vehicle impact on roadside barriers / Bonin, Guido; Ranzo, A.. - In: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD. - ISSN 0361-1981. - STAMPA. - 1890:TRR 1890(2004), pp. 65-70. (Intervento presentato al convegno 83rd TRB Annual meeting tenutosi a Washington DC nel 10-15 gennaio, 2004) [10.3141/1890-08].

Dynamic actions on bridge slabs due to heavy vehicle impact on roadside barriers

BONIN, Guido;
2004

Abstract

The use of roadside safety barriers in Italy has changed in recent years: the number of installed devices has increased, and so have their stiffness and resistance. These changes were necessary because early barrier design was inadequate to contain and redirect heavy vehicles. The change in barrier design led to an increase in stiffness and resistance; consequently, the action transferred to the structure by the device increased. The need for resistance on the bridge slabs can be too high because the peculiar action of the roadside barriers was not adequately taken into account in the oldest bridge design codes. In addition, characterizing the actions transferred to the bridge slab is difficult because of the dynamic nature of vehicle impacts on roadside barriers. Given the impossibility of performing a full-scale laboratory test for every bridge deck, the use of computational mechanics applied to dynamic impact/interaction problems is one of the best ways to establish these actions in the project phase. Research was conducted into the use of a three-dimensional finite element model of the bridge slab-barrier-vehicle system to perform a numerical simulation of the impact, according to the procedure used for the roadside barrier homologation crash test, described in the European Standard EN 1317.
2004
Impact testing; computational mechanics; BRIDGES; Road Safety
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Dynamic actions on bridge slabs due to heavy vehicle impact on roadside barriers / Bonin, Guido; Ranzo, A.. - In: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD. - ISSN 0361-1981. - STAMPA. - 1890:TRR 1890(2004), pp. 65-70. (Intervento presentato al convegno 83rd TRB Annual meeting tenutosi a Washington DC nel 10-15 gennaio, 2004) [10.3141/1890-08].
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