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Assessment of Injury Criteria in Roadside Barrier Tests
This report gives a summary of the evolution of present standards for testing roadside barriers in connection with the mitigation of human injuries. After a critical review of pertinent literature, a new set of injury criteria is recommended. These criteria are based on the average deceleration and the velocity change up to the instant of secondary impact. The reasonableness of these criteria is assessed.
A series of tests and evaluations of two prototype vehicles for paratransit were conducted. This volume (Volume II) presents the test procedure and re...
The Low-Profile barrier was crash tested in the 1990s to assure that a previously developed Low-Profile barrier end treatment complied with Test Level...
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