Abstract: Braced metallic tubes are used to dissipate kinetic energy in impact attenuation devices used in transportation safety applications. It is an experimentally observed fact that these braced tubes collapse asymmetrically, ...

Abstract: Side‐impact collisions with roadside objects, such as trees, luminaires, signs, and guardrails, a serious type of accident, have not been adequately addressed by the roadside hardware testing community due to the difficulties ...

Abstract: In this paper, the buckling load for a radially compressed annular plate surrounded on its outer edge with an edge beam is determined. A uniform, ring-type load is applied to the edge beam ...

Abstract: A recent study suggested that the use of numerical integration methods would generally lead to the erroneous prediction of chaotic behavior for an unforced Duffing’s oscillator. It is shown ...

Abstract: A new analytical expression is proposed for the prediction of the buckle propagation pressure for deepwater offshore pipelines. The expression accounts for the influences of the main factors ...

Abstract: A relatively simple approach is first presented for the approximate analysis of the collapse of circular rings under external pressure. It accounts for geometrical and material nonlinearities, and is able to approximate ...

Abstract: Vehicles that run off the road and then slide sideways into fixed objects along the roadside are an important accident scenario that has been often overlooked in developing roadside hardware. This paper combines the results ...