Wooden Safety Guardrails as Environmental Harmonization Equipment in Mountainous and Forest Roads

Authors

  • Grigorios Papageorgiou
  • Evangelos Paschalis
  • Elias Papaspiros
  • Georgios Ntalos
  • Michael Scarvelis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59573/emsj.7(2).2023.19

Keywords:

road safety guardrails, mountainous and forest roads, castanea timber, welded timber, impregnated timber

Abstract

No doubt, road safety guardrails stand for equipment of utmost importance for road networks, as they boost road safety level by reducing accidents, especially fatal ones. The current research includes various types of metallic safety barriers in accordance with the European Norm (EN) 1317 specification, as well as the results of the replacement control with a wooden set-up of advanced unilateral metallic street safety. The elaboration of the European Standard EN 1317, by the team of Technical Committee TC226 of the European Committee for Standardization of Road Systems, has set a common terminology and imposed a uniform manner of codification for control and comparison of characteristics of such systems. With adequate laboratory tests, wooden safety guardrails are examined and proposed instead of conventional systems.

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2023-06-27

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