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Development Of A Mash Tl-4 Steel, Side-Mounted, Beam-And-Post, Bridge Rail, Oscar Pena
Development Of A Mash Tl-4 Steel, Side-Mounted, Beam-And-Post, Bridge Rail, Oscar Pena
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
A new steel, side-mounted, beam-and-post, bridge rail was designed, crash-tested, and evaluated according to safety performance guidelines included in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) for Test Level 4 (TL-4). The new bridge rail system was designed to be compatible to multiple concrete bridge decks utilized by the States of Illinois and Ohio. Bridge rail configurations were designed and optimized based on weight per foot, constructability, and safety. Post-to-rail and rail-to-rail connections were designed for the new bridge rail. Several concepts for these connections were configured, and after discussion with representatives …