Citation

Abu-Odeh AY, Mitchell C, Bligh RP, Menges WL, Kuhn DL. Accid. Reconstr. J. 2019; 29(1): 30-41.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Accident Reconstruction Journal)

DOI

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PMID

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Abstract

This article describes the development and crash testing of a short-span short-radius guardrail system for use by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The guardrail system was designed to meet Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware(MASH) Test Level 3 (TL-3) evaluation criteria; the article offers details of the system's design, descriptions of tests performed; assessment of test results, and recommendations for implementation.

Language: en

Keywords

Crash tests; Highway safety; Texas; Traffic crashes; Crashworthiness; Guardrails; AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware; Texas Department of Transportation