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Overall Summary of the Development Approach
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... OVERALL SUMMARY OF THE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH To develop design guidelines for the application of aesthetic surface treatments on concrete safety shape barriers, a set of preliminary guidelines were initially developed. A parametric study was performed using finite element simulations to establish these preliminary guidelines.
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... Truck floorboard internal energy was therefore selected as the surrogate OCD measure. By comparing the internal floorboard energies from 2,000-kg pickup truck simulations and the reported OCD values for several crash tests, thresholds for acceptable and unacceptable internal energy levels were established.
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