The purpose of this project is to design a non-snagging guardrail post. The procedure will be to first develop a simple finite element (FE) model of a single post, wheel and suspension to explore the snag potential for some existing standard guardrail posts. The next step in the procedure will be to develop appropriate design changes that could prevent wheel snagging and investigate if they do by using a one-post sub-model. An attempt to validate the used material model for wood will also be done by comparison between laboratory tests and finite element simulations.

Creator

• Karlsson, Jessica E

Colaboradores

• Ray, Malcolm H.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Civil & Environmental Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-0623100-160338

Palabra Clave

• Finite Element Analysis
• snagging
• guardrail post

Advisor

• Ray, Malcolm H.

Defense date

• 2000-06-23

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-06-23

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright