Lindsay Transportation Solutions, Inc.

Politecnico Di Milano

Agusta S.p.a.

Barrier Systems, Inc.

Lindsay Transporation Solutions, Inc.

Societa' Iniziative Nazionali Autostradali - S.i.n.a. S.p.a.

Crashtech S.r.l.

Marco Anghileri

Valeria Di Giacomo

Gerrit Andrew Dyke

Jeffrey M Thompson

Jason T Lim

Alvaro E Morales Flores

Owen S Denman

Daniel Paul Dacayanan Loya

Franz M Muller

Nicholas Kent Bang

Robert Hendricks

Augusto Piccinini

Silvio Mazzola

Roberto Brivio Colombo

Daniel Paul Decayanan Loya

Joseph Nagy

Scott G Kroeker

Nathan Daniel Poppe

Mario Bruni

Claudio Angelo Ardemagni

Matteo Bernardini

Sergio Marco Bassi

Davide Benetton

A crash cushion apparatus broadly comprising a rail assembly, a number of dividers and a number of side panels forming a number of collapsible bays, and a number of crushable tubes. The rail assembly includes a number of anchor plates and a rail. The dividers are longitudinally spaced apart from each other and slidably entrained on the rail. The side panels link the dividers together. The crushable tubes are oriented longitudinally in spaces formed by the collapsible bays and extend between sequentially adjacent ones of the dividers. The dividers entrain the crushable tubes in the longitudinal orientation without the crushable tubes being fixed to the dividers. The dividers are configured to be driven rearward along the rail and crush the crushable tubes to sequentially collapse the collapsible bays.

Restorable crash cushion apparatus

A guardrail vehicle crash absorbing assembly including a braking structure at a panel joint including a tooth having a cutting portion for making a horizontal cut in a rail panel slidably moving relative to another rail panel.

Guardrail crash absorbing assembly

A guardrail crash absorbing assembly including overlapping elongated upstream and downstream rail panels, an impact head for sliding an upstream rail panel relative to a downstream panel when impacted by a vehicle, and a cutting tooth with a cutting tooth portion having a cutting surface and a hook structure for cutting and splitting the downstream rail panel upon vehicle impact on the impact head.

A crash absorbing guardrail panel assembly including rail panels overlapping at adjacent end portions, an end terminal moving one of the rail panels along the other rail panel when impacted by a vehicle, and braking structure on one of the rail panels engaging an edge of the other rail panel to dissipate kinetic energy during relative sliding movement between the rail panels and absorb impact forces on the end terminal.

Crash absorbing guardrail panel assembly

Apparatus for absorbing energy when impacted by a vehicle includes a backstop structure, a track extending to the backstop structure, a plurality of collapsible tubes supported by spaced independently movable supports on the track, and stabilizer structure stabilizing the supports in three planes during movement of the supports on the track and collapse of the tubes.

Crash attenuator apparatus

A device for protecting an aircraft component from collision with a flying object, the device having: a main member rotating about an axis and subject to collision with a flying object; and diverting means connected angularly to the main member, also subject to collision with the flying object, and designed, in the event of collision of the main member with the flying object, to reduce the axial momentum of the flying object and divert the flying object radially with respect to the axis.

Device and method for protecting aircraft component from collision with flying objects

What is described is a locally yielding structure () with high energy absorption for aeronautical applications, the said structure being substantially closed and substantially rigid, characterized in that at least one wall () of the said substantially closed structure comprises at least one vent valve () which can be opened when a pressure exceeding a predetermined value is present within the substantially closed structure (). In a particularly advantageous application, the invention is used in connection with a helicopter tank and enables the subfloor to be used to absorb energy by being deformed during any impact on the ground. The present invention is also advantageous for limiting the damage caused by explosions in an aircraft fuselage.

Crashworthiness structure and method

Apparatus for absorbing energy when impacted by a vehicle includes a plurality of vertical, spaced supports. Positioned between the supports are energy absorbing, collapsible, pressurizable modules having two connected module segments. Each module segment has an outer wall in the form of a truncated cone extending away from an end of the energy absorbing module and diverging outwardly in the direction of the other module segment.

Energy absorption apparatus with collapsible modules

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Milan, Italy

Marco Anghileri