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Crash Barrier Design Resistance Guidelines

The document summarizes the types and design requirements for crash barriers used along highways. It describes rigid concrete barriers and semi-rigid metallic barriers, noting that concrete barriers experience negligible deflection during impacts while metallic barriers can deflect up to 1.2 meters. It then provides a table outlining the minimum design requirements for three types of concrete crash barriers, including the required shape, grade of concrete, wall thickness, bending and shear moments of resistance, heights, and more.

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Crash Barrier Design Resistance Guidelines

The document summarizes the types and design requirements for crash barriers used along highways. It describes rigid concrete barriers and semi-rigid metallic barriers, noting that concrete barriers experience negligible deflection during impacts while metallic barriers can deflect up to 1.2 meters. It then provides a table outlining the minimum design requirements for three types of concrete crash barriers, including the required shape, grade of concrete, wall thickness, bending and shear moments of resistance, heights, and more.

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IRC: 6-2017

;: The barriers can be of rigid type, using cast-in-situ/precast reinforced concrete panels, or·
,. of flexible type, constructed using metallic cold-rolled and/or hot-rolled sections. The
metallic type, c~lled semi-rigid type, suffers large dynamic deflection of the order of 0.9 to
1.2 m due to impact, whereas the 'rigid' concrete type suffers comparatively negligible
deflection. The efficacy of the two types of barriers is established on the basis of full size
tests carried out by the laboratories specializing in such testing. Due to the complexities of
the structural action, the value of impact force cannot be quantified.

Table 10: Minimum Design Resistance

,lypes of Crash Barrier


[Link] Requirement P-1 In-situ/ P-2 In-situ/ P-3 In-situ
Precast Precast
1) Shape Shape on traffic side to be as per IRC:5, or
New Jersey (NJ) Type of 'F' Shape designated
thus by AASHTO
.,

2) Minimum grade of concrete M40 M40 M40


3) Minimum thickness of R C wall 175mm 175 mm 250mm
(at top)
4) Minimum moment of resistance 15 kNm/m 7.5 kNm/m 100 kNm/m for
at base of the wall [see note (i)] ' ." end section and
for bending in vertical plane with 75 kNm/m for
reinforcement adjacent to the intermediate
traffic face [see note (ii)] section [see note
(iii)]
5) Minimum moment of resistance 7.5 kNm/m 3.75 kNm/m 40 kNm/m
for bending in horizontal plane
with reinforcement adjacent to
outer face [see note (ii)]
6) Minimum moment of resistance 22.5 11.25 Not applicable
of anchorage at the base of a kNm/m kNm/m
precast reinforced concrete
panel
7) Minimum transverse shear 44 kN/m of 22.5 Not applicable
resistance at vertical joints joint kN/m of
between precast panels, or at joint
vertical joints made between
lengths of in-situ crash barrier.
8) Minimum height 900mm 900mm 1550 mm

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