Development of a pultruded composite material highway guardrail

Composites - Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1329-1338

  Bank, L C ^a   Gentry, T R ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. fibres; A. plates; Composite material; E. pultrusion

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PULTRUSION;

VEHICULAR IMPACTS;

GUARD RAILS;

EID: 0035447232     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(01)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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