Samenvatting
The "dragnet" vehicle arresting system consists of a net made of steel cables attached at each end to metal bends energy absorbing devices. The system was subjected to six full-scale automobile crash tests in order to evaluate its performance in stopping a speeding vehicle over a relatively short distance with acceptable deceleration levels. A theoretical analysis of the system was made and the results compared with the test data. The mathematical approximation correlated satisfactory with experiment.