A finite element simulation study was performed to determine influences of different post spaces and thicknesses of crash barriers on the dynamic behaviors due to truck crash. Accuracy of the simulation was verified using qualitative and quantitative comparisons. Based on in-depth examination of crash simulation recordings, energy distributions occurred in the barrier against the car are determined. In this paper, the existing finite element crash analysis of barriers using the LS-DYNA program is further extended to study the dynamic response of the barrier with various geometries of the guardrail. The numerical results for various parameters are verified by comparing different models.

The purpose of this paper is to detect the fiber stiffness degradation of GFRP plates from natural frequency response data. The combined finite element analysis using ABAQUS program and the inverse algorithm described in this paper may allow us not only to detect the deteriorated elements from the mirco mechanical point of view. Several numerical results show that the proposed system is computationally efficient in identifying fiber stiffness degradation for complex structures such as composites.