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Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1743-17

http://scholar.google.com...wadi&publication_year=2001

The Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory and the Federal Highway Administration, designed two bridge railing and approach guardrail transition systems for use on transverse glue-laminated timber deck bridges. The bridge railing and transition systems were developed and crash tested for use on medium-service roadways and evaluated according to the Test Level 2 safety performance criteria provided in NCHRP Report 350. The first railing system was constructed by using steel hardware, whereas the second railing system was built by using glulam timber components. Four full-scale crash tests were performed, and the bridge railing and transition systems were determined to be acceptable according to the current safety standards in NCHRP Report 350.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1743, Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Quality; Roadside Safety Features.

English

p. 126-139

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072018

Figures; Photos; References (23)

Bridge railings; Crash tests; Guardrail transition sections; Guardrails; Laminated wood; Prototype tests

NCHRP Report 350

Glulam timber components; Steel hardware

Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

TRIS, TRB

Aug 15 2001 12:00AM

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