Road Safety Devices Assessment for Sliding Motorcyclists Protection

Statistics show that the impact with a roadside safety barrier of a motorcyclist sliding on the pavement after an accident is potentially more dangerous than the accident itself. In recent years, in effort to avoid the most serious consequences, the approach to barriers design changed and specific devices have been introduced to improve motorcyclists’ safety. At LAST Crash Labs, the effectiveness of one of these devices was experimentally and numerically investigated. A good numerical-experimental correlation was obtained and, in view of that, it was concluded that the numerical approach is a rather reliable tool for the development of devices for motorcyclists’ protection.