… In order to accurately simulate the complicated behaviour of a flexible barrier, which is …
of the numerical modelling of the main components and connections of the flexible barrier are …

… the numerical responses of the system are in good agreement with the test data. Furthermore,
a … rockfall protection barrier with a capacity of 5000 kJ is designed by using the numerical …

… Numerical modeling has become the mainstream way to study the dynamic response of
flexible barriers. Either the finite element method (FEM) (Escallón et al. 2014; Castanon-Jano et …

… rockfall barriers under concentrated areal impact loads. A new bilinear force-displacement
model was incorporated into the model to simulate … The numerical simulation was initialized …

… responses of flexible rockfall barriers are analyzed and discussed, focusing on the effects of
the block’s shape. The numerical … In this section, the details of the numerical modeling of the …

… This paper investigates the dynamic response of low energy, semi-rigid rockfall barriers.
The study is based on a FE model that reproduces the geometry, components and connections …

… , have given an interesting insight on the numerical response of a semirigid barrier, characterized
by a large dependence of the barrier response to the impact conditions. The blocN size…

… practical shortcomings of full-scale tests, numerical modeling has been used to simulate
impacts on … In this section, the numerical investigation focuses on the mechanical response of …

… modeling approaches for predicting the impact response of flexible rockfall protection barriers…
In parallel, numerical modeling techniques have been used to simulate impact tests and to …

… of the numerical modeling technology of the … rockfall protection barrier based on LS-DYNA
are described. For more details of the numerical model, please refer to successful simulations …