Simulation of crash tests for high containment levels of road safety barriers

Safety is becoming one of the most important aspects in modern road traffic. The car industry is developing
new passive and active vehicle safety systems to increase the safety of vehicle occupants, while at the same time
the road safety is improved with installation of more effective road restraint systems.
The purpose of road restrain systems is to prevent a vehicle from veering off the road and to restrain it from
entering dangerous area to avoid or reduce the injuries of vehicle occupants and other road traffic participants
and objects.
Road restraint systems installed on public roads in Europe have to fulfil the European standard EN 1317
[1], which mandates certain full scale crash tests to certify safety barriers for targeted containment levels. To
reduce the development and testing costs of new safety barrier designs, it is advisable to use computational
crash simulations for early evaluation of safety barrier behaviour under test vehicle impact.