| Medium: |
conference paper |
| Language(s): |
English
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| Conference: |
IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007 |
| Published in: |
IABSE Symposium Weimar 2007 |
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Page(s):
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362-365
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Total no. of pages: |
8 |
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Page(s):
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362-365
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| Total no. of pages: |
8 |
| Year: |
2007 |
| DOI: |
10.2749/222137807796158246 |
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Abstract:
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Bridges are constructed in a way that they ensure safe traffic and that they resist all actions durably.
In order to ensure the traffic safety bridges are fitted with safety barriers. The safety barriers usually
installed on German bridges are designed to protect lorries up to a weight of 13 t from breaking
through the barrier and crashing down the bridge. But in case of accidents with heavier vehicles
conventional safety barriers reach the limit of their capabilities. Therefore a research project was
initiated in order to obtain safety barriers which are able to protect even heavy lorries from breaking
through and crashing down, without simultaneously concerning about unacceptable bridge
damages. Within the research project real crash tests of vehicles towards safety barriers were
executed - for the first time inclusive measuring all important forces acting on bridges.
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Keywords:
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road safety impact loads design actions impact tests safety barriers for bridges durability of structures force measurement
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