Road safety barrier assembly has a barrier and an electric circuit that can be supplied with direct current. The circuit includes an outward electric cable and a return electric cable, and sensors along the barrier for detecting impact of a vehicle against respective portions of the barrier, each sensor causing upon impact detection a switching of electric current from the outward electric cable towards the return electric cable at the respective portion of the barrier. A device is arranged so as to measure a voltage value between the outward electric cable and the return electric cable upstream of the sensors. A control unit is predisposed to receive a signal indicating the voltage value measured by the voltage measuring device and is configured to calculate the distance between the voltage measuring device and the location of impact against the road safety barrier, by applying Ohm's Law.

Proposed is a smart guardrail capable of absorbing a shock induced when a vehicle collides with the guardrail to protect an occupant against the shock and of in real time performing monitoring and remote control to prevent a subsequent traffic accident. The smart guardrail, including a support fixedly installed at an equal distance at a center or an edge of a road, and a guardrail plate fixedly coupled to one or both sides of the support, further includes: a shock absorption member absorbing and thus reducing a shock induced when a vehicle collides with the guardrail; and a terminal configured to detect an external shock, an appearance of a wild animal on the road, and transmit a warning signal to an adjacent terminal positioned in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle and to terminals positioned in succession behind the adjacent terminal.

A cable anchor deflector bracket includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is coupled to a guardrail at a location adjacent to a cable anchor bracket, which is an attachment point where a cable couples to the guardrail. The second portion slopes outwardly away from the guardrail and is proximate to an end of the cable anchor bracket and the end of the cable anchor assembly.

The present invention relates to a module for a road safety barrier (11) comprising essentially a main protection body (12) adapted to be coupled and constrained to at least two support uprights (13) fixed and constrained to the road surface or in the ground immediately adjacent to said road surface, in which said main protection body (12) has an upturned L shaped section to be arranged on said uprights (13) and fixed to them and in which said main protection body (12) has, in its front surface facing outwards, opposite to that facing said uprights (13), at least two wave-shaped enlargements (14) which proceed horizontally and parallel to the ground, said main protection body (12) being made from a special composite material, in which the matrix used for its realisation comes from raw materials recycled from used tyres, that is from the mixing of rubber powder and/or granules containing other recycled plastic materials and their related binders.

Proposed is a safety fence for vehicle protection, including prop members installed vertically on a ground to be spaced apart from each other at regular intervals, a horizontal member installed horizontally to be supported on the prop members, and a coupling member configured to couple the horizontal member to each of the prop members. The coupling member is coupled at a first side thereof to the horizontal member and coupled at a second side thereof to each of the prop members, a guide hole is formed in the second side to guide the horizontal member when it is displaced due to external shocks, and the second side is fixedly coupled to the prop member by a fixing pin that passes through the guide hole to be fixed to the prop member.

A one-piece metal plate foundation suitable for guardrails and other structures includes a longitudinally extending main plate body; a rear flange extending at an angle from at least a longitudinal portion of the main plate body in a first direction at a rear edge of the main plate body; a front flange extending at an angle from a longitudinal portion of the main plate body in a direction opposite the first direction at a front edge of the main plate body; an integral offset spacing plate coupled to a front edge of the main plate body above the front flange and extending laterally forward of the front flange; and a mounting flange extending at an angle from at least a longitudinal portion of the offset spacing plate at a front edge of the offset spacing plate, wherein the mounting flange is configured for mounting of a guardrail.

A protective barrier includes a rigid upright member including a post, a fitting having a housing with a first outer surface and a first inner surface. The housing includes a first hole extending from the first outer surface to the first inner surface; a first end, a second end and an inner chamber defined by the inner surface of the housing and extending from the first end to the second end; the first end having a flange sized and shaped for attachment to an outer surface of the rigid upright; at least one support member disposed within the inner chamber and extending from the first end toward the second end of the housing, the support member including a second hole. The protective barrier also comprises a hollow rail including a third end sized and shaped for being received within the inner chamber, the hollow plastic rail including a third hole; and a fastener extending through the first hole, second hole and third hole such that the hollow plastic rail is secured to the fitting.

A high-grade post or pile system for the foundation of a solar array, which may facilitate the installation of a solar array rack in more corrosive soils. Such a post may also satisfy the need for a foundation able to resist ground forces, in particular the effects of wind on the exterior of the array, and may reduce problems with beam refusal. The post may be used in other applications such as guardrail posts. In contrast to existing posts for solar arrays, the high-grade post may be formed from higher-grade steel.

A road safety rail system comprising at least one continuous rail, or a plurality of sequentially connected system rails, forming a main body of a barrier, which are supported above ground by one or more ground engaging posts, wherein the system also comprises a terminal end section (TES) having an upstream end and a downstream end, the TES including: a stationary component comprising one or more standard terminal end (STE)-rails at the downstream end connected to at least one formed terminal end (FTE)-rail located at the upstream end of the TES, the STE rails being supported at a set horizontal axis height above ground level by a plurality of posts; wherein the at least one FTE-rail(s)-include(s) a twist from a primarily vertical orientation to a primarily horizontal orientation; Wherein the at least one FTE rail(s) bends down from a set horizontal axis height Y above ground level to a horizontal axis height being at, or near ground level; a moving energy absorbing component comprising an impact head including a base and upright projection, the base comprising an axial orifice extending from a downstream entry point to an upstream exit point, through which an upstream terminus of an FTE rail is passed before the FTE rail is directly or indirectly connected to a releasable connection point coupled to a ground anchor; wherein the impact head is connected via at least one beam to a post detacher element located downstream of said impact head a pre-determined distance therefrom.

A module of road safety barrier for contacting and redirecting an errant vehicle includes a first beam, a second beam, and uprights that support them. The first beam has a first longitudinal part projecting laterally with respect to the uprights and also has a second longitudinal part projecting laterally with respect to the uprights, on the opposite side of the uprights with respect to the first longitudinal part. The first longitudinal part and the second longitudinal part are each joined to both of the uprights by means of permanent joints and are joined to one another by welds or brazing so as to form an internally hollow beam with longitudinal slots. In manufacturing, the whole module is galvanized.