@inproceedings{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00016860,
 author = {Itoh, Y and Hattori, R and Liu, C},
 book = {6th Asia-Pacific conference on Shock & Impact Loads on Structures},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Traditionally, road guard fences were made of single materials such as timber, metal, and concrete. In order to combine the merits of diverse materials, hybrid guard fences have been developed in recent years by constructing metal rails longitudinally on the concrete guard fence bases. Moreover, on-site full-scale tests were also conducted to examine what happens to the hybrid guard fences when vehicles collide with them. However, little research has been carried out to study the performance of such guard fences under collisions of vehicles through numerical simulations by using computers. The purpose of the research presented in this paper is to model the collision process by developing finite element method (FEM) models of both heavy trucks and metal-concrete hybrid guard fences. Comparing the results generated from computer simulations and on-site experiments demonstrates that the developed models can be applied to simulate the performance of vehicles and guard fences when collisions happen. The developed simulation method can further provide the data to design new guard fences and analyze existing ones.},
 pages = {41--48},
 publisher = {CI-PREMIER},
 title = {A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HYBRID GUARD FENCES SUBJECTED TO VEHICLE COLLISION},
 year = {2005}
}