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Project
Multi-Objective Optimization of Roadside Safety Barrier Design



Description:

Optimize highway roadside safety barrier using high fidelity computer simulations in concert with full-scale crash testing.

Impact Simulation and Model Validation


Scientific Merit and Methodology


Design of Experiments


Occupant Safety and Safety Design


Multi-objective Optimization


Uncertainty and Reliability Analysis
• Uncertainty Analysis and Modeling
1. Impact condition
2. Geometry and material
3. On-site condition
• Reliability Design


Status
• Integrating finite element models of vehicle, dummy and barrier systems
• Developing methodologies for simulation-based experimental design
• Incorporating uncertainty modeling and reliability analysis

Future Work
• Shape and topology optimization for highway barrier design
• Reliability-based multi-objective optimization