Full-scale embankment tests and comparisons with a computer simulation. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

Criteria for installing guardrail protection at embankments are based on the relative severity of a vehicle leaving the road and going down an embankment as compared to striking the guardrail. The severity of leaving the roadway was determined by use of a dynamic vehicle simulation model. Full scale vehicle embankment tests were used to validate the Texas' version of the highway-vehicle-object simulation model are reported.