EP0924347B1 - Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail - Google Patents

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EP0924347B1
EP0924347B1 EP97830691A EP97830691A EP0924347B1 EP 0924347 B1 EP0924347 B1 EP 0924347B1 EP 97830691 A EP97830691 A EP 97830691A EP 97830691 A EP97830691 A EP 97830691A EP 0924347 B1 EP0924347 B1 EP 0924347B1
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Vittorio Giavotto
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Priority to AT97830691T priority patent/ATE260373T1/de
Priority to DE1997627815 priority patent/DE69727815T2/de
Priority to ES97830691T priority patent/ES2215219T3/es
Priority to EP97830691A priority patent/EP0924347B1/en
Priority to PCT/EP1998/008325 priority patent/WO1999032728A1/en
Priority to BR9807715-5A priority patent/BR9807715A/pt
Priority to KR1019997007633A priority patent/KR20000075573A/ko
Priority to CN98802701A priority patent/CN1248307A/zh
Priority to CA002280017A priority patent/CA2280017A1/en
Priority to JP53332699A priority patent/JP2001513160A/ja
Priority to EP98965283A priority patent/EP0968333A1/en
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F15/00—Safety arrangements for slowing, redirecting or stopping errant vehicles, e.g. guard posts or bollards; Arrangements for reducing damage to roadside structures due to vehicular impact
    • E01F15/02—Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes
    • E01F15/04—Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes essentially made of longitudinal beams or rigid strips supported above ground at spaced points
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F15/00—Safety arrangements for slowing, redirecting or stopping errant vehicles, e.g. guard posts or bollards; Arrangements for reducing damage to roadside structures due to vehicular impact
    • E01F15/14—Safety arrangements for slowing, redirecting or stopping errant vehicles, e.g. guard posts or bollards; Arrangements for reducing damage to roadside structures due to vehicular impact specially adapted for local protection, e.g. for bridge piers, for traffic islands
    • E01F15/143—Protecting devices located at the ends of barriers
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F15/00—Safety arrangements for slowing, redirecting or stopping errant vehicles, e.g. guard posts or bollards; Arrangements for reducing damage to roadside structures due to vehicular impact
    • E01F15/02—Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes
    • E01F15/04—Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes essentially made of longitudinal beams or rigid strips supported above ground at spaced points
    • E01F15/0461—Supports, e.g. posts

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  • Safety barriers of the "guard-rail” type are currently known, which comprise a horizontal, longitudinal member, or stringer, which may consist of a strip of corrugated sheet iron mounted on uprights or posts.
  • stringer which may consist of a strip of corrugated sheet iron mounted on uprights or posts.
  • These safety barriers present quite safe and predictable results in the event of impact of a vehicle at angles of trajectory which are not too wide with respect to the longitudinal extent of the barrier.
  • a widely adopted solution consists in setting the terminal segment of the barrier inclined downwards to the ground; this prevents a head-on collision of a vehicle with an end of the barrier at a dangerous height, but may cause the vehicle to leave the ground and even reach dangerous heights.
  • barrier terminals that are able to absorb energy by means of telescoping, said terminals comprising various barrier segments which are fastened to one another in longitudinal succession by means of calibrated bolts engaged in slots in the segments; the barrier is double at least at the terminal portion, and each couple of parallel segments of the guard-rail are supported by a wooden post, which has a through hole at a certain height so as to be able to withstand impacts that are transverse to the barrier but to break under an impact of preset magnitude that is longitudinal to the barrier.
  • the impact of a vehicle against the terminal causes the screws and posts to break, and the sections to telescope one over another.
  • the known terminals of this type are widely used in some states of the United States, however, they have the drawback that, since a particularly high-priced type of wood must be used, the cost of such barriers is relatively high already when the wood is locally available; if they were to be transported as they are to other areas, the cost of the posts would be prohibitive, also considering that it is not possible to restore them after impact. In addition, the stiffness of the posts is anyway excessive and relatively dangerous.
  • the state of the art also includes a safety barrier for motorways made of a single strip of curved section on the end of which is mounted a widened headpiece provided with a system of rollers.
  • a safety barrier for motorways made of a single strip of curved section on the end of which is mounted a widened headpiece provided with a system of rollers.
  • a variant of this system comprises a terminal with headpiece equipped with particular knives, which, in the event of impact of a vehicle, runs along the strip of the guard-rail so that the knives cut the guard-rail up into thin slices.
  • the absorption of energy is provided by the longitudinal cutting of the strip.
  • shock-attenuators are devices that are set to protect a particular object, which is considered to be dangerous or to be in a dangerous position for traffic. Shock-attenuators differ from terminals in that they present better performance and higher costs. In fact, a terminal functions only in so far as it is connected to a safety barrier, whereas a shock-attenuator may function even when it is isolated, protecting a dangerous but relatively narrow obstacle, such as the pier of a bridge or the end of a low wall.
  • the aim of this invention is to make a terminal for road safety barriers which enables good absorption of energy in the event of impact, good retention of the vehicle, and hence provides a good level of safety, and at the same time may be made and restored at acceptable costs.
  • the new terminal comprises a longitudinally extended strip made up of a number of barrier segments provided with elongated slots in which screws for joining the segments together are screwed at a calibrated tightening torque; it further comprises a headpiece of the terminal applied on an outermost segment; each segment is mounted on an upright or post, which is made up of two half-posts, the bottom one of which is driven into the ground for a substantial portion of its height, and the top one is mounted on the bottom one by means of a predictably breakable transverse pin, i.e. a pin having a preset breaking strength, and preferably presenting a groove which engages with a peg of the bottom half-post.
  • a predictably breakable transverse pin i.e. a pin having a preset breaking strength
  • a tie rod is mounted, which comprises in its lenght a weakened section with a predictable or preset breaking strength.
  • the headpiece comprises a plate which is set transverse to the longitudinal extension of the barrier and is provided with a protruding frame for retention of the vehicle, so as to prevent a vehicle that hits the terminal from sliding sideways without being able to exploit the absorption of energy provided by the terminal.
  • the new terminal enables a good absorption of energy, and hence a considerable degree of safety, for a vehicle in the event of impact of the latter against the terminal with a substantial component of force parallel to the longitudinal extent of the barrier or guard-rail.
  • it has relatively reasonable production and installation costs, and it may be restored rapidly and at reasonable costs.
  • a safety terminal for road safety barriers is indicated as a whole by reference 10 in the figures and is suitable for being applied to the ends of road safety barriers of the guard-rail type, which comprise one or more strips of corrugated sheet metal supported by uprights or posts.
  • the terminal 10 basically comprises a number of segments 12 of elastic metal strip, each of which is referenced 12a, 12b, 12c, ... respectively, starting from the outermost segment 12a.
  • Each of the segments 12a, 12b, 12c, ..., as may be seen in Figures 3, 11 and 12, comprises a corrugated metal strip with double corrugation, with longitudinal slits or slots aligned in two parallel rows, referenced 13 and 14 respectively.
  • the slots 13 of one row and the slots 14 of the other row are mutually staggered in a longitudinal direction.
  • the segments of corrugated section bar, 12a, 12b, 12c are fastened together, in a per se known way, by means of bolts 15.
  • a supporting upright or post is provided, respectively referenced 18a, 18b, 18c, etc., whilst the reference 18 indicates an end upright which supports a headpiece 20 applied to the end segment 12a.
  • Each upright or post comprises a bottom half-post and a top half-post, respectively referenced 18' and 18" for the post 18, 18'a and 18"a for the post 18a, and likewise 18'b and 18"b for the post 18b, and 18'c and 18"c for the post 18c.
  • the bottom half-posts have a bottom retaining rod or peg 16 and, set at the top, a predictably breakable pin 17, i.e. a pin having a preset breaking strength, upon which the top half-post engages.
  • the pin 17 passes through registering holes of the bottom half-post and in the top half-post, whilst rod 16 is engaged in a recess 16' of the top half-post.
  • the bottom half-post is made of I-section and the top half-post of channel section, whilst reinforcements 19 are provided along the flanges of the metal section which forms the top half-post.
  • the tie rod 30 is stretched which is anchored with one end thereof on the bottom half-post 18' of 18 and with the other end thereof on the top half-post 18''a.
  • the tie rod 30 generally comprises a cable portion, a tensioning device which is per se known, and preferably comprises a predictably breakable plate 32, i.e. a plate having a preset breaking strength, generally consisting, as may be seen from Figures 9 and 10, of a metal plate with one narrow portion 33.
  • the head or headpiece 20 ( Figures 5, 11 and 12) comprises an end plate, referenced 22, which is substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal extent of the barrier and fastened to the end of the end segment of metal section 12a by means of a bottom bracket 24 and an oblique arm 25.
  • the plate 22 comprises a restraining projection 26 set around the perimeter of the plate close to the latter's periphery.
  • the said restraining projection has the purpose of restraining a vehicle which collides against the headpiece so as to prevent any lateral displacements of the vehicle that might cause it to swerve and thus fail to exploit the possibilities of absorption of energy of the safety terminal, with consequent greater risks.
  • the restraining projection generally consists of a bent metal sheet welded to the base plate 22.
  • the new terminal for guard-rails or road safety barriers is mounted with the uprights driven into the ground almost up to the full height of the bottom half-posts 18', 18'a, etc., as is indicated by the dashed line S in Figures 1, 3 and 4.
  • the energy of impact is substantially dissipated by the frictional force between the elements 12a, 12b, etc., by the breaking of the bridges that separate the slots of the said elements; by the breaking of the breakable plate 32; and by the breaking of the pegs 17 of the uprights.
  • the terminal may be restored relatively easily by replacing the barrier elements 12, 12a, etc. that have been deformed, by replacing the tie-rod element 30, by replacing the calibrated pins 17, and by restoring the top half-posts on them.

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EP97830691A 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail Expired - Lifetime EP0924347B1 (en)

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PT97830691T PT924347E (pt) 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Terminal de barreira de seguranca para guardas de seguranca de auto-estradas
AT97830691T ATE260373T1 (de) 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Sicherheitsendanlage für leitplanken
DE1997627815 DE69727815T2 (de) 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Sicherheitsendanlage für Leitplanken
ES97830691T ES2215219T3 (es) 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Barrera de seguridad para pretil de autopista.
EP97830691A EP0924347B1 (en) 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail
DK97830691T DK0924347T3 (da) 1997-12-22 1997-12-22 Sikkerhedsbarriere-endestykke til et motorvejsautoværn
BR9807715-5A BR9807715A (pt) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 Terminal de barreira de segurança para trilho segurança para auto-estrada
KR1019997007633A KR20000075573A (ko) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 고속도로 난간을 위한 안전 장벽 터미널
PCT/EP1998/008325 WO1999032728A1 (en) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail
CN98802701A CN1248307A (zh) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 高速公路护拦用的安全挡板末端
CA002280017A CA2280017A1 (en) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail
JP53332699A JP2001513160A (ja) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 自動車道路のガードレール用安全バリヤー末端部
EP98965283A EP0968333A1 (en) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail
AU20545/99A AU2054599A (en) 1997-12-22 1998-12-18 Safety barrier terminal for motorway guard-rail

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ATE260373T1 (de) 2004-03-15
KR20000075573A (ko) 2000-12-15
BR9807715A (pt) 2000-02-15
EP0968333A1 (en) 2000-01-05
WO1999032728A1 (en) 1999-07-01
DE69727815T2 (de) 2005-01-13
DK0924347T3 (da) 2004-07-26
JP2001513160A (ja) 2001-08-28
ES2215219T3 (es) 2004-10-01
CN1248307A (zh) 2000-03-22

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