report/publication
Hostile Vehicle Mitigation
2022
Applications of the N1 Model
- Abstract
- Security in public spaces is one of the key responsibilities of all governments and municipalities in the modern world. These days, the security is threatened also by vehicle attacks, which have already happened in many cities all over the world. This kind of terrorist attack poses a challenge on developers of barrier systems who try to mitigate them with their products. Testing of the barriers plays a key role in the development process. However, real testing of the barriers is very expensive. The development is therefore very often driven by realistic computer simulations (finite element numerical simulations – FE simulations). A tremendous advantage of the simulations is their ability to answer many questions regarding behaviour of the system before the real crash test is performed. Moreover, the simulations can quickly predict results of the crash tests under various conditions such as- various impact angles, various attacking vehicles, various impact velocities. To support these defensive efforts of both academic and commercial researchers Joint Research Centre (JRC) has started a series of workshops “Numerical simulation for hostile vehicle mitigation”. At these workshops various institutions across Europe are sharing their knowledge and experience related to the numerical simulations of vehicle attack mitigation. During these discussions it turned out that there is a need for generic vehicle models that would represent vehicle categories prescribed by standards like IWA 14 or CWA 16221.
- Authors
- Sebik M., Popovic M., Kleteckova K.
- Year
- 2022
- Publisher
- European Commission
- Citation
Sebik M., Popovic M., Kleteckova K., "Generic vehicle model N1", European Commission, 2022 - Identifiers
JRC JRC130165 - Download file
- Generic vehicle model N1
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