Soil Based Design of Highway Guardrail Post Depths Using Pendulum Impact Tests
| Autor: | Yakup Türedi, Murat Örnek, Murat Buyuk, Muhammet Musab Erdem, Ali Osman Atahan |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi -- İnşaat Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türedi, Yakup, Erdem, Muhammet Musab |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Geological
Performance Post embedment depth Pendulum Geology Impact test Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Post Geophysics Engineering Post-soil interaction Crash Test | Bridge Piers | Crashworthiness Environmental science Soil properties Geotechnical engineering W-beam guardrail Pendulum test Guardrail |
| Popis: | WOS: 000508489300007 Guardrails are passive road restraint systems (RRS) used at roadsides and medians to improve road safety. In the case of inadequate post embedment depth of soil driven posts may not function as intended and design cannot provide adequate safety nor security for the impacting vehicles. In general, the height of the steel guardrails varies between 1600 and 2400mm. However, the characteristics of the soil where the guardrails are driven are not taken into consideration. In other words, a constant depth ofguardrail is used regardless of the type of soil. Post embedment depths (PED) in steel guardrail systems are currently determined based on strong soil properties. The crash performance of these designs may not be appropriate for locations where soil conditions are weaker than tested conditions. In this study, a series offield impact tests were performed on soil embedded posts to determine optimum PED for three different soil conditions, namely hard, medium hard and soft soil. A pendulum device is used to perform dynamic impact tests on C type (C120x60x4), H type (H150x90x6) and S type (S100x50x4.2) posts. Seven different PED values were used for each type of soil. A total of 63 impact tests proved that increased soil stiffness resulted reduction in PED for the posts. Optimum PED values are determined based on energy absorption of posts. With the use of optimum length guardrail posts considerable amount of installation time, labor and material savings are expected. TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [213M516] The work presented in this paper was carried out with funding from TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), Grant No. 213M516. |
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