WO2022097179A1 - Road with a safety road barrier and method of installation - Google Patents
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- guardrails road safety barriers
- Said barriers are an essential element in ensuring road safety. In fact, in addition to clearly delimiting the edge of the road, they are intended to significantly reduce the consequences of accidents involving vehicles leaving the road.
- guardrail The main function of a “guardrail” is to ensure adequate safety standards. For this reason, the so-called “guardrails” are normally subjected to compliance with adequate mechanical standards which, only after having been certified through real tests (hereinafter also called “crashtests”) with a vehicle, allow to consider them compliant with the norm. It should be noted that a correct interpretation of the standard should not concern just the safety barrier as such, but also its installation: in essence, although the road barrier manufacturers provide their certified barriers, what really guarantees the road safety is not just the barrier, but the entire system consisting of the road and the barrier (as installed).
- a “guardrail” must prevent vehicles from exit the road and their overturning, to avoid dangerous collisions with other vehicles and/or elements outside the road. At the same time, it must be able to absorb and dissipate all, or part of, the kinetic energy possessed by the vehicle at the moment of impact, reducing, in a controlled way, the decelerations induced by the collision to the occupants of the vehicle, and allowing its gradual return to the carriageway by stopping its travel, possibly near the roadside.
- the upright has a very linear structure consisting of a piece normally with a constant profile in the buried part.
- the tightness of the installation largely depends on the compactness and characteristics of the ground that, if not particularly compact, modifies the behavior of the road barrier in the event of a vehicle collision: in this case, in fact, being the uprights not well stable in the ground, following the impact of vehicles, they will tend to rotate rigidly in the ground, instead of flexing, reducing their deformation capacity and therefore the capacity to absorb and dissipate the necessary amount of kinetic energy; but, above all, the uprights fixed on the ground normally exhibit very different behaviors depending on the trait of road in which they are planted, with consequent different performances with respect to the safety they can guarantee.
- the known art proposes some solutions that aim to overcome this problem related to the unevenness of installation, i.e. a problem due to the installation of the "guardrails" on roads whose edge is made up of soils whose compactness cannot be controlled with the necessary accuracy.
- Some solutions provide for the use of uprights whose part to be fixed to the ground has an appropriate shape to ensure greater sealing, for example by using uprights associated with an enlarged plate that makes a greater quantity of soil collaborate with the upright seal, when the "guardrail” is subjected to a violent impact caused by an accident.
- the anchoring system taught in WO 2019/008525 A1 in cases where it is most needed (i.e. when the roadside is not very compact, and does not offer adequate resistance), must penetrate deep enough into the ground below the roadway, in a zone that is often occupied by underground services. It is definitely preferable that the "road system" as a whole, including the appropriately installed safety barriers, does not invade the ground below the road substrate (approximately up to a depth of the order of one meter): this in order to decouple, as much as possible, the management of underground services (often associated with road layouts) from the road management.
- a further problem consists in having road barriers whose behavior can be controlled according to the trait of road.
- variable performances are obtained in a substantially random way, without the possibility to exercise a real control of the performances that this barrier should guarantee, so that they depend only (as it should be) on the real security needs that are required in the different road traits.
- guardrail is conceived as an accessory, made independently by a specialized manufacturer, which serves to guarantee the safety of a road, built and managed from another subject. Instead, it would be more correct to directly conceive a road as an overall system, equipped with its own safety barrier, when it is necessary or foreseen. In fact, the effectiveness of a barrier is closely linked to the ground on which it is installed.
- a well-made substrate guarantees the durability and integrity of a road perhaps more than the laying of the surface, which, in any case, is an operation for which a periodic refurbishment must be envisaged for maintenance purposes; while the preparation of the substrate is a job that must be done at the beginning, once and for all.
- the main purpose of the present invention is to indicate a real "road system", including appropriate safety barriers, in which each section of the safety barrier can be installed with reasonable certainty of compliance with the required safety requirements, given that these requirements can be defined in a different way according to the case.
- the safety barrier indicated in the invention must be able to be installed in such a way as to react both through plastic deformations, and through programmed breakages of some elements, being such reactions decided during the installation operation.
- Another purpose of the present invention is to indicate a "road system", including special safety barriers, in which the installation of the barriers is as easy as possible, even if some elements require installation in the compact ground of the road substrate, under the asphalt surface.
- the present invention must also pay great attention to maintenance aspects, so that the replacement of parts of the "guardrail” are also efficient, both in the context of normal maintenance, and in contexts following accidents, when the "guardrail” is inevitably damaged. Still in the context of maintenance, it should be noted that the installation of road barriers that require the positioning of some elements under the road surface should not interfere (in a problematic way) with the routine maintenance of the road surface itself.
- the "road system”, including special safety barriers, must be associated with an innovative method of installation and maintenance, which is not significantly more onerous than the methods currently practiced for the installation and maintenance of simple road barriers, in which the fixing of the uprights to the ground takes place simply by driving them into the ground through the use of a "pile driver”.
- a “road system” which includes a road with a stabilized road substrate on which a road surface is laid, that is a road with a road substrate consisting of ground with known compactness characteristics; and said road is equipped with a road safety barrier comprising a plurality of uprights, infixed in the roadside as in the known art; moreover, said road is characterized in that said safety barrier comprises, in turn, at least the elements listed below.
- a vertical plate system with a thin section, infixed in said road substrate below the road surface, typically consisting of a layer of asphalt;
- sard vertical plate system has a cross-shaped section.
- a junction element designed to be coupled to the uprights of a road safety barrier by wrapping them around the base.
- junction element comprises parts with programmed breakage such that said junction element breaks when said connecting tie exerts a traction force higher than a predetermined threshold, and lower than the force that would damage said connecting tie rod or the force that would produce a displacement of said vertical plate system with respect to the road substrate in which it is infixed, and when said junction element breaks, said "guardrail" upright is no longer connected to said vertical plate system.
- This "road system”, including special safety barriers, is suitable for being built even when the road, without a safety barrier, is already in place and the asphalt surface is already laid over the roadway, using a method of installing a road safety barrier as described above; and such installation method includes at least the steps listed below.
- both the plate system and the tie rod are buried in the road substrate or protrude slightly above it. This expedient allows the removal of the road surface for a possible remaking without damaging either the plate system or the tie rod.
- the elements that break first are always the junction elements, which are located near the uprights, and therefore on the roadside, in a position of easy access.
- the main advantage of the present invention consists in the fact that any upright for "guardrail” installed according to the teachings of the present invention satisfies all the main requirements for which it was conceived, designed and certified.
- J Figures 1a and 1b show the main elements of a safety road barrier ("guardrail");
- J Figure 2 shows a "guardrail” according to the known art, fixed to the base by driving the uprights into the ground;
- J Figure 3 shows, in a simplified way, a perspective view of some details of an installation of an upright for "guardrail” according to the invention
- J Figures 4a and 4b show two examples of implementation of a junction element in a "guardrail" system according to the invention
- J Figure 5 shows, in a simplified way, a plan view of an installation of some uprights for "guardrails" according to the invention. Detailed Description
- Figure 1a shows a section of a typical road safety barrier (also called a "guardrail”). This barrier is seen from inside the road and, in general, it is composed of the elements listed below:
- the uprights 110 in a typical and widespread installation method, are fixed to the base by driving them into the ground.
- the number 200 indicates the land where the ’'guardrail” is installed, in the cases considered by the present invention.
- Figure 1b represents the same "guardrail’' shown in Figure 1a, but it is seen in a section orthogonal to the direction of the road.
- Figure 1b also allows viewing of a spacer element between the upright 110 and the horizontal blockout bar 130.
- Said spacer element is indicated with the number 120, it has the main function of connecting the horizontal blockout bar 130 with the upright 110, and plays an important role in determining the performance of the "guardrail" as a whole.
- guardrail does not detach from the ground where it is installed, while in other cases, some uprights may also detach from the ground and the containment takes place due to the holding of the horizontal blockout bar which remains attached to a plurality of uprights, some of which, when stressed by an impact of a mass having a reduced momentum, do not detach from the ground.
- the "optimal guardrail” is the one that performs its function in the best possible way, and its behavior depends not only on the “guardrail” as such, but also on the type of road and the characteristics of the ground on which it is fixed to the ground.
- the road surface is also represented, indicated with the number 210, which typically consists of a layer of asphalt with a thickness of about ten centimeters.
- Figure 2 illustrates the behavior of a "guardrail” installed in the ground on the road quay, as occurs in the vast majority of real cases.
- the uprights 110 of a "guardrail” are simply driven into the ground 200 without particular attention to the characteristics of this ground 200. Therefore, when the "guardrail” is hit by an impact force, indicated in Figure 2 with the number 400, the stiffness of the road quay is often modest, typically it is not sufficient to keep vertical the upright 110, which does not deform and typically rotates as indicated in Figure 2 (in which the rotated position of the upright 110 is represented with a dashed line).
- Figure 3 instead shows a detail of a road equipped with a safety barrier according to the teachings of the invention. Differently from Figure 2, in which the characteristics of the ground
- 201 indicates an area of land with characteristics different from the generic soil 200.
- the roadway on which a road is built normally (practically always) undergoes a stabilization treatment by compacting and pressing the terrain on which the road surface is then spread.
- a so-called road substrate or roadbed
- Said road substrate 201 is essential, and serves to prevent subsidence phenomena of the road when it is loaded with the weight generated by vehicular traffic.
- said road substrate 201 has known compactness characteristics, generally very good, because, as said, it is a terrain which must not deform under the weight of the vehicles passing on the road.
- Said road substrate 201 is obviously under the road surface, always indicated with the number 210; certainly, a part of terrain treated as the road substrate also extends towards the roadside, but its characteristics along the edges are certainly not as controlled as those below the road surface, and they are somehow affected by the characteristics of the surrounding terrain 200.
- road substrate 201 Another feature of the road substrate 201 is that (at least in roads at the state-of-the-art) it is homogeneous and should not host the presence of underground utilities (e.g. ducts or pipes) which should therefore be located below it.
- underground utilities e.g. ducts or pipes
- the road substrate 201 therefore represents the ideal ground for anchoring the uprights 110 for the installation of safety barriers.
- Anchors of this type are known, for example from patent application no. PCT / IB2019 / 050262 - "Reinforcement element for fixing at the base, in ground, the uprights of roadside safety barriers", or from WO 2019/008525 A1 - "Device for anchoring safety road barriers poles to the ground” (both already mentioned previously); however, in the known solutions some problems remain unsolved, such as the control of the mechanical performance of the guardrail, and its consequent behavior in the event of accidents, and the installation and maintenance problems, which are very onerous in the known solutions.
- the trick taught in the present invention consists in the particular composition of the anchoring system, which must be composed of several parts, among which at least the three parts listed below must be present:
- Said system of vertical plates 153 is designed to be infixed vertically in the road substrate 201 , where this is more compact, in an area below the road surface 210, possibly not too close to the edge of the road.
- the infixion must take place so that its upper part remains near the upper limit of the road substrate 201 and does not cross it completely downwards, so as to minimize the risk of breaking any underground services during the infixion maneuver (remember that the underground services are normally made to pass under the road substrate). Furthermore, they must not protrude excessively above the road substrate 201 , in order not to interfere with the remaking of the above road surface 210 which, from time to time, are carried out for the road maintenance.
- Another characteristic of said system of vertical plates 153 is that it is preferable that it has a thin cross section or, in any case, a very small section surface.
- a preferred conformation of the section of said system of vertical plates 153 is a cross shape. This feature, as will also be clarified later, is functional to the optimization of installation and maintenance operations.
- Said connecting tie rod 152 is an element which works in tension being connected to said system of vertical plates 153 on one side and to an upright 110 on the other, even if, as will be clarified below, the connection with the upright 110 is not a direct connection.
- the function of said connecting tie rod 152 is to hold the upright 110 to which it is connected in the installation position, when the latter is stressed by an impact force, again indicated with the number 400, and coming from the road.
- the junction between an upright 110 and a connecting tie rod 152 is not a direct junction: the teachings of the present invention provide that it is implemented through said junction element 151.
- junction element 151 are more than one: in fact, in addition to guaranteeing the junction between an upright 110 and a connecting tie rod 152, it allows to use uprights of very simple manufacture, such as those typically used in implementations according to the known art, which can be installed by driving through the use of a pile-driving machine, and which do not require particular conformations to hook onto said connecting tie rod 152.
- junction element 151 is an element of rather limited dimensions which is located near the base of the uprights 110, in an area not covered by the road surface (so that the maintenance operations are easy), and which can be sized to break when stressed by predetermined forces.
- said junction element 151 must break before said connecting tie rod 152 breaks and before said system of vertical plates 153 moves due to a particularly high impact force 400 which, acting on the upright 110 towards the outside the road could drag the whole system of vertical plates 153.
- the programmed breakage of said junction element 151 can be decided, according to the case, so as to hold the upright 110 in position to determining the deformation of the upright 110 at its base, or it can be sized to break before this deformation happens, letting the post 110 rotate without deforming, or deforming only to a small extent. It is clear that when said junction element 151 is broken, the connection between the vertical plate system 153 and the upright 110 is also lost.
- junction element 151 it is possible to concentrate on said junction element 151, all the adjustments on the mechanical performances that are intended to be obtained with regard to the behavior of a "guardrail" in the event of an impact.
- junction element 151 in addition to regulating the mechanical performance of the "guardrail", the use of a junction element 151 , with a programmed and predetermined break, allows to preserve the integrity of the roadway in the event of particularly violent accidents that involve heavy vehicles, avoiding that the impact forces may be such that the system of vertical plates 153 can be torn off the road substrate.
- Said junction element 151 can be made according to many variations. In fact, it can be a simple horseshoe-shaped element that wraps the upright 110 made with a thickness such as to give it the desired resistance, or it can be assembled with a higher resistance part completed with a lower resistance bar, closed or hooked to the connecting tie rod 152, by means of screws or pins with programmed break. In short, what is important is that said junction element 151 wraps around the base of the upright 110 and has a predefined strength, so that it breaks when a predetermined stress is reached, or it never breaks before the upright is bend over.
- Figure 4a shows an example of implementation of a junction element according to the invention which has proved effective in the context of some "crash tests".
- the junction element presented in Figure 4 includes: a U-shaped element, indicated with the number 151.1 , whose size is suitable for “wrapping” a "guardrail” upright; a bar, indicated with the number 151.3, designed to close the element 151.1 in the shape of a "U", hooking onto its two ends; and a pair of screws, indicated with number 151.2, which are used to fix said bar 151 .3 to said element 151.1 in the shape of a "U".
- junction element thus composed is very simple. Its shape allows the use of normal uprights designed to be infixed in ground, which, when the "guardrail is installed, are inserted into the concavity of the" U "shaped element 151.1.
- Bar 151.3 allows to install the overall system by wrapping the uprights of the “guardrail” even if the “guardrail” itself is already assembled. Finally, the screws 151.2 allow you to close the junction element 151 as a whole.
- the screws can be replaced by two nuts that are screwed onto the ends of the "U" -shaped element 151.1, suitably threaded.
- these screws 151.2 (or the equivalent nuts) can also act as a mechanism for tensioning the connecting tie rod 152 after installation.
- junction element 151 an essential feature of said junction element 151 is given by the fact that it must be able to split (thus opening the ring that holds the base of the upright 110) by effect of a predetermined and controllable stress force.
- the programmed break can be obtained by acting on the dimensioning of the thickness of the material with which said “U” shaped element 151 .1 is made, or by acting on the choice of screws 151.2, or on the tightness of their thread.
- the programmable break can also be adjusted in the field, and very easily, for example by making a hole on said bar 151.3 as shown in Figure 4, where a hole indicated with the number 151.4 is visible.
- a weak point of said bar 151.3 is determined, which will break precisely in that zone when stressed by a strong traction which tends to widen said junction element 151 ; and the force necessary to break will be less the larger the hole.
- junction element 151 is designed to hook to said connecting tie rod 152 (shown in Figure 3). Even this hooking arrangement can be obtained in many ways: a very simple, even banal, way is to provide a hook on the end of the connecting tie rod 152, which hooks said junction element 151 at any point.
- Figure 4b shows another embodiment of the junction element 151, also tested in experimental "crash tests”.
- Figure 4b shows said joining element 151 in an overall view in which it is connected to a connecting tie rod 152 (in a form of implementation consisting of two metal bands), and to a system of vertical plates 153 (also this last in a form of implementation other than that previously considered, which had a cross shaped section).
- junction element 151 is then shown as an enlarged detail in Figure 4b, to highlight its simplicity: it is essentially formed by a metal bar bent in a "U" shape, and does not require any closing bar, since the closure around the base of the upright to which it is to be coupled is completed by the end of the connecting tie rod 152.
- Breakage can be controlled: by acting on the dimensioning of the thickness of the metal bar bent to "U", of which the junction element 151 is made up; or by choosing the mechanical strength of the screws with which the junction element 151 is attached to the connecting tie rod 152; finally, even in this form of implementation, weakened breakage areas can be created by making holes or incisions on the "LT bent metal bar, of which the junction element 151 is made.
- junction element 151 shown in Figures 4a and 4b really represents only few of the many forms of implementation with which it can be implemented, provided that the few essential characteristics required for the implementation of the present invention are preserved; and in particular, the possibility of making it so that it breaks, by opening, stressed by a predetermined force, that it is of reduced size, and that it is designed to be mounted at the base of the "guardrail" uprights in an easily accessible position for its installation, maintenance or replacement.
- Figure 5 shows, in a very simplified way, a road, indicated with the number 300, equipped with a safety barrier according to the teachings of the present invention.
- the barrier is installed only on one side of the road, and the proportions between the sections of the uprights and the road width are obviously unrealistic: however the purpose of the representation is only to support the description of the “road” as a whole, intended as a system, highlighting some problems concerning the installation of the safety barrier on the roadside, and its possible maintenance.
- Figure 5 shows four uprights, indicated with the number 110, fixed on one side of the road 300. It is observed that the uprights shown in Figure 5 are of a very common type, with "C" profile, and, regardless of the profile, they are of the type that can be easily installed by infixing them on the ground, using a pile-driving machine. Each of said uprights 110 is surrounded by a joining element 151.
- each upright 110, through the junction element 151 and a connecting tie rod 152 is connected to at least one system of vertical plates 153.
- each upright 110 is connected to a single system of vertical plates 153
- the resistance to this movement would be exerted not only by the resistance of a single system of vertical plates 153, but by the strength of two, or three of these.
- each upright 110 is connected to the two vertical plate systems 153 which are located at its sides, as well as each system of vertical plates 153 is connected to the two uprights 110 which are at its sides.
- This connection scheme has the advantage of being very simple and, in addition, it has the advantage that, when two contiguous uprights are hit simultaneously by an impact that would tend to move them away from the road, the two reaction forces exerted on a system of vertical plates 153, and transmitted by the two connecting tie rods 152 connected to this vertical plate system 153, have a component that tends to cancel itself out, and therefore does not contribute to a potential displacement of the vertical plate system itself which, as explained, must remain stationary in its position even in the event of an accident.
- connection scheme which can be chained as shown in Figure 5, or organized in another way, giving rise, once again, to many variants of implementation, what is important to highlight is that the whole system can be installed in very simple way.
- an essential feature of the system of vertical plates 153 is that it has a thin horizontal section, and this allows to drive said system of vertical plates 153 into the road substrate, without removing the asphalt of the road surface, but simply by cutting it according to a shape as that of the vertical plate system 153.
- the cross-sectional shape of the vertical plate system 153 is a cross shape, which represents one of the preferred implementation forms for its effectiveness, and for its simplicity. Once the correct shape has been cut, the system of vertical plates 153 is driven into the road substrate by means of a pile-driving machine commonly supplied to operators in the sector.
- the connecting tie rod 151 also has a thin shape that allows it to be inserted under the road surface through a cut in it.
- one of the simplest is precisely the sealing of the cuts. Therefore, through this sealing operation, the road surface is restored and made accessible so that the road can be traveled.
- the installation operations described above can also take place if the vertical plate system 153 has a section with enlargements (for example in the center).
- a core drill to remove a small part of the road surface in order to make a hole in the road surface itself, to accommodate any enlargement of the vertical plate system 153.
- the core drilling of asphalt for the removal of small asphalt layers is a simple operation and can be carried out with generic equipment, therefore there are no problems with respect to the general objectives of the invention which aim to seek a solution that can be implemented by a large multitude operators without placing requirements on the instrumentation they must have at their disposal, posing potential discrimination in the choice of operators to whom to assign the work.
- both said vertical plate systems 153 and said connecting tie rods 152 when installed, are in contact with the road substrate 201 (the vertical plate system 153 is immersed in the road substrate), and possibly immersed only in a small part in the bottom part of the road surface 210, so that even maintenance which requires the removal of the road surface, for the subsequent reconstruction, can be carried out without interfering with the system described.
- the ends of the connecting tie rods 152 which are close to the uprights 110 must be connected to the uprights themselves: as already explained, this occurs through the junction elements 151. From the installation point of view, it is important to observe how this coupling between the connecting tie rods 152 and the junction elements 151 can take place indifferently even if the uprights 110 are installed or before installing them. In this second case, the junction elements 151 are placed on the ground so that they surround the point where the upright 110 is to be infixed, and the latter can be driven in at a later time, as normally occurs with a pile driver. The installation is then completed by tensioning the connecting tie rod: this maneuver can also take place with one of the many known tensioning systems, for example with a screw system positioned on the junction element.
- This installation sequence that is the fixing to the ground of the uprights 110 of the "guardrail” after the installation of the vertical plate systems 153 and the connecting tie rods 152, is typical of the installations carried out during the construction of new roads, in which the complete road, with its mantle, is normally completed before the installation of the "guardrails”: in this case it is obviously convenient to install the vertical plate systems 153 and the connecting tie rods 152 as soon as the road substrate 201 is ready, before laying the road surface 210 (thus avoiding unnecessary cuts).
- junction elements 151 when it is necessary to reinforce an existing safety barrier, which is present on a complete road, the junction elements 151 must be coupled to the already fixed uprights 110: for this reason it is necessary that they are composed of several pieces that allow their opening, to wrap the base of the uprights 110, and a subsequent closing, around the base of the uprights 110, ending with a tensioning operation of the connecting tie rods, obviously pre-installed as already explained above.
- Possible further variants may also depend on technological aspects concerning the individual components of the system, such as any additional consolidation and stiffening subsystems, but also on the materials that can be used to make each single part of the system.
- the invention itself can be implemented in a minimal or superabundant way, for example with plate systems composed of a single plate, or with a number of plates greater than two, and arranged in various ways and in different directions: even if the solution with two plates arranged in a cross (therefore with a four-branch system) appears to be the preferred form of implementation for simplicity of construction and installation (making two orthogonal cuts seems the simplest thing to do).
- the invention therefore, lends itself to incorporating and supporting further evolutionary efforts, capable of improving both the performance of the system described and the installation and/or maintenance procedures. Such developments, if not included in the present description, may be the subject of further patent applications associated with the present invention.
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