The essential requirements to protect the environment and structures have led to the development of a wide variety of protection fences. To achieve the best output, these fences need to be processed and manufactured in a way that they exhibit high resistance to impacts and tensions. Therefore, many companies have globally ongoing to manufacture these fences, each of which offers special technical and mechanical characteristics. However, in some cases, the quality of manufactured fences is not satisfactory. For this to be overcome, Pars Baft Company (PBC) has designed and manufactured metal fences possessing unique technical and resistance characteristics for use in various projects and for protection purposes. By performing a series of experiments and software analyses, this study investigated the technical and mechanical properties of a protection fence manufactured by PBC. For this, impact tests were conducted on protection fences by changing the height of the posts and positions of collision to precisely evaluate the fence’s impact energy absorption capacity. In all experiments, the protection fence exhibited an astonishing capacity to dissipate the impact energy of 50 kJ following a rational arrangement of energy absorbers that causes effective slippage of wire ropes. Furthermore, the simplest likely assumptions employed in numerical simulations were meticulously proposed in terms of choosing finite element shapes, constitutive rules, and contact conditions, such that the numerical simulation model can efficaciously reproduce the dynamic behavior of the protection fence. It can be concluded that PBC protective fences can possess the best performance under full-scale tests to achieve improved capacity for energy absorption.
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