Providing safe roadside barrier hardware on scenic roadways and parkways is as important as safety on more typical roads. Recently a number of guardrails and bridge railings have been developed for these types of scenic roads. This report s1.111marizes the development, testing and field experience for three aesthetic bridge railing designs and three guardrail designs: the glue-laminated wood bridge railing, the Federal Lands Highways Modified Kansas corral bridge railing, the stone masonry bridge rail, the steel-backed timber guardrail, the stone masonry guardwall and the pre-cast simulated stone guardwall. This report describes the history of each barrier system and summarizes the crash tests. The features and components of each system are discussed and drawings are presented.
Precast concrete bridge rail systems offer several advantages over traditional cast-in-place rail designs, including reduced constructiontime and cost...
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) objective for this contract was to crash test and evaluate several longitudinal barriers, bridge rails, ...
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