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BS 6579-8:1987
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Safety fences and barriers for highways Specification for concrete safety barriers
Hardcopy , PDF
English
30-11-1987
Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
0 Introduction
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Construction
4 Materials
5 Manufacture and handling or precast units
6 Marking of precast units
Appendices
A Vehicle safety fences and barriers for highways:
type characteristics
B Information to be supplied by the purchaser
Table
1 Safety fences and barriers: type characteristics
Figures
1 Profile type 1: in-situ
2 Profile type 2: in-situ
3 Profile type 3: in-situ split level
4 Profile type 4: precast units installed
5 Profile type 5: precast units installed
6 Profile type 4: precast unit
7 Profile type 5: precast unit
8 Precast 3 m standard length unit
9 Precast 1 m long make-up unit
10 Details of base and end fixings for precast units
11 Precast termination unit
12 Precast transition unit: type 1 (for transition to
double sided open box beam safety fence)
13 Connector for precast transition unit: type 1 to
single sided open box beam safety fence
14 Connector for precast transition unit: type 1 to
double sided open box beam safety fence
15 Precast transition unit: type 2 (for transition to
200 mm x 100 mm tensioned rectangular hollow section
beam safety fence)
16 Connector for precast transition unit: type 2 (for
transition to tensioned rectangular hollow section
beam safety fence)
17 Precast transition unit: type 3 (for transition to
single sided open box beam safety fence)
18 Precast transition unit: type 3 (for transition to
200 mm x 100 mm tensioned rectangular hollow section
beam safety fence)
19 Connector for precast transition unit: type 4 (for
transition to tensioned rectangular hollow section
beam safety fence)
20 Diagrammatical representation of fences and barriers
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