The vehicle-ramming terror attacks in Berlin, Barcelona, London and Nice highlighted our vulnerability: all of us could be wounded or killed during a walk in a crowded place, it is sufficient a car, a van or a truck. The authors of this paper designed a planter full of water and mainly made of steel and cast iron. For this reason, this device serves as both mobile anti-terror barrier and street furniture. This barrier can stop a 3500 kg vehicle running at 64 km/h and the system itself in less than five meters as demonstrated by the experimental crash test. Starting from these considerations, a simplified mathematical model of the impact was developed and a finite element model was calibrated. The first one points out the main features needed by the obstacle; the second one is a good base for further analyses.

(2019). Study on a new mobile anti-terror barrier . In PROCEDIA STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/147268

Study on a new mobile anti-terror barrier

Baragetti, Sergio;Arcieri, Emanuele Vincenzo
2019-01-01

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The vehicle-ramming terror attacks in Berlin, Barcelona, London and Nice highlighted our vulnerability: all of us could be wounded or killed during a walk in a crowded place, it is sufficient a car, a van or a truck. The authors of this paper designed a planter full of water and mainly made of steel and cast iron. For this reason, this device serves as both mobile anti-terror barrier and street furniture. This barrier can stop a 3500 kg vehicle running at 64 km/h and the system itself in less than five meters as demonstrated by the experimental crash test. Starting from these considerations, a simplified mathematical model of the impact was developed and a finite element model was calibrated. The first one points out the main features needed by the obstacle; the second one is a good base for further analyses.
2019
Baragetti, Sergio; Arcieri, Emanuele Vincenzo
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