Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) frequently receive requests to provide aesthetically pleasing traffic rails for use on select bridges and roadways. TxDOT, in response to providing context sensitive design alternatives, initiated a project to develop additional aesthetically pleasing rail alternatives. Under a previous TxDOT project, the F411 bridge rail was constructed and crash tested to Test Level 3 (TL-3).The objective of this research is the full-scale crash test and evaluation of the F411 to Test Level 4 (TL-4). The most direct approach for accomplishing the objectives of this task is to perform a full-scale TL-4 crash test of this railing design. The TL-4 vehicle is a single-unit box-van truck impacting the railing at 15 degrees and 49.7 mi/h (80 km/h). While containment is required, overturning of the vehicle 90 degrees is an acceptable test outcome. The TxDOT F411 bridge rail performed acceptably for NCHRP Report 350 test 4-12. Based on the performance of the F411 bridge rail in the full-scale crash test to TL-4 test conditions, the F411 may be used here containment of 18,000 lb single-unit trucks is desired.


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    Titel :

    TL-4 Crash Testing of the F411 Bridge Rail


    Beteiligte:
    D. C. Alberson (Autor:in) / W. L. Menges (Autor:in) / R. R. Haug (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2004


    Format / Umfang :

    54 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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