When a tanker (trucker, rail, barge, or ship) impacts a rigid wall longitudinally or axially with an initial velocity, it is highly deformed and failures might occur. In BlazeTech's engineering model, the energy method is used to determine its deformation (neglecting bending energy, which is small in a large deformation case). Strain and stress fields and thus failure are predicted from the deformation.

Deformation when impacting a rigid wall
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