Posts For Road Safety Barrier
AssigneeHill & Smith Limited
InventorsGraham T. Sharp, Sean Billingham, John M. Walton
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AssigneeHill & Smith Limited
InventorsGraham T. Sharp, Sean Billingham, John M. Walton
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A road safety barrier having a plurality of ropes supported by posts rigidly mounted on or in the ground is described. Each rope is held in tension against the posts and supported in a notch or groove in a side of the posts. The ropes are released from a post and the post is not pulled from the ground when a vertical force is exerted on the rope. The ropes when weaved are tensioned against the posts and this gives rise to a combined frictional resistance to displacement of the ropes relative to each post along the length of the safety barrier. The structure of at least some of the posts and/or their mounting with respect to the ground defines a minimum bending yield strength in a direction along the length of the barrier. This minimum bending yield strength is greater than the bending moment resulting from the combined frictional resistance forces acting on the post.
A post for use with a road safety barrier having a plurality of wire ropes, the post comprising:
A post for use with a road safety barrier having a plurality of wire ropes each rope supported by a plurality of posts, the post comprising:
A road safety barrier comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.