Development of MASH TL-2 Crashworthy W-Beam Terminals For Low-Speed/Volume Roads

Abu-Odeh, Akram; Bullard, D. Lance; Schulz, Nathan D.; Schroeder, William J. L; Kuhn, Darrell L.

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Development of MASH TL-2 Crashworthy W-Beam Terminals For Low-Speed/Volume Roads

2023-06-01
By Abu-Odeh, Akram ; Bullard, D. Lance ; Schulz, Nathan D.

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Creators:

Abu-Odeh, Akram ; Bullard, D. Lance ; Schulz, Nathan D. ; Schroeder, William J. L ; Kuhn, Darrell L.
Corporate Creators:

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Proving Ground
Contributors:

Rogers, Jeremiah B.
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Federal Lands Highway
Subject/TRT Terms:
Publication/ Report Number:

FHWA-FLH-23-004
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Right Statement:

Public Domain
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

Technical Report
Contracting Officer:

Rogers, Jeremiah B.
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Federal Lands Highway
Abstract:

The objective of this research was to design a simple low-cost guardrail terminal at Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) Test Level 2 (TL-2) (44 mi/h) that assumed use of a current generic MGS W-beam guardrail, which is the most widely used guardrail in the country. The terminal design was tested and evaluated according to the safety-performance evaluation guidelines included in the second edition of MASH (1). The crash tests were performed in accordance with MASH TL-2. This report provides details on the development and simulations of different designs for the TL-2 W-beam end terminal, the crash tests and results, and the performance assessment of the TL-2 W-beam end terminal for MASH TL-2 gating terminal evaluation criteria. The final TL-2 W-beam end terminal design met the performance criteria for MASH Tests 2-35, 2-30, 2-31, and 2-37b for gating terminals.
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Funding:

DTFH6116D0039L
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76560/dot_76560_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 46.88 MB]
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Federal Lands ; Federal Highway Administration
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