In-service evaluation of the BRAKEMASTER and C-A-T crash cushions. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Delineation of concrete safety-shaped barriers and urban freeway gore area crash cushions. Final report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, Austin

Delineation of urban freeway gore area crash cushions. Interim report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, Austin

Appendix to report - summary of the results of crash tests performed on the Connecticut Impact Attenuation System (CIAS).

Mode of access: Internet.

Summary of the results of crash tests performed on the Connecticut Impact Attenuation System (CIAS). Interim report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Development of a metal tube crash cushion for narrow hazard highway sites. Final report.

Connecticut Department of Transportation, Wethersfield

Development and experimental evaluation of a steel tube vehicle impact attenuation system. Final report.

Connecticut Department of Transportation, Bureau of Planning and Research, Wethersfield

Performance of highway safety devices. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Scale model study of low-density concrete impact attenuators. Final report.

Ohio Department of Transportation, Columbus

Performance of a tire-sand inertial barrier system in Connecticut. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Impact attenuators - a current engineering evaluation. Final report - executive summmary.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

An energy-absorbing frangible-tube bridge barrier system. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Roadside concrete barriers: warrants and end treatment. Final report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, Austin

Improving FEM crash simulation accuracy through local thickness estimation based on CAD data

In this paper, we present a method for estimating local thickness distribution in nite element models, applied to injection molded and cast engineering parts. This method features considerable improved performance compared to two previously proposed approaches, and has been validated against thickness measured by di erent human operators. We also demonstrate that the use of this method for assigning a distribution of local thickness in FEM crash simulations results in a much more accurate prediction of the real part performance, thus increasing the bene ts of computer simulations in engineering design by enabling zero-prototyping and thus reducing product development costs. The simulation results have been compared to experimental tests, evidencing the advantage of the proposed method. Thus, the proposed approach to consider local thickness distribution in FEM crash simulations has high potential on the product development process of complex and highly demanding injection molded and casted parts and is currently being used by Ford Motor Company.

Proxy statement proposals after the 2008 financial crash

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics