AASHTO M180
Flared End Terminal
Part of the Guardrail End range · Highway Guardrail.
Model: Flared end terminal
A flared end terminal turns the start of a guardrail run away from the traffic face, so a vehicle that leaves the carriageway meets the rail at an angle instead of hitting the end square on. The roadway guardrail terminal end are installed at the end of each part of crash barrier system with the aim to prevent damage and harm to pedestrians and vehicles when vehicles become errant and crash at the end of guardrails. Generally speaking, every 1000…
- Standard AASHTO M180 / EN 1317
- Material Q235B / Q345B steel
- Surface Hot-dip galvanized, ≥ 550 g/m²
- MOQ 1 × 20GP container
- Lead time 15–25 days
- Mill test certificate with every shipment
- Shop drawings and setting-out plan included
- Custom lengths, hole patterns and coating weights
Technical specification
| Profile | Fleat End Terminal |
| Material | Q235B / Q345B steel (S235JR / S355JR / ASTM A529M) |
| Surface treatment | Hot-dip galvanized; powder or PVC coated on request |
| Zinc coating | ≥ 550 g/m² (≈80 µm), AASHTO M180 |
| Standard | AASHTO M180 / EN 1317 / GB/T 31439 |
| Certificate | Mill test certificate and coating weight report with every shipment |
| Note | Custom length, hole pattern and coating weight produced to your drawing. |
Dimensions shown are the standard range. Non-standard lengths, hole patterns and coating weights are produced to order — send your drawing for a confirmation drawing.
Description
The roadway guardrail terminal end are installed at the end of each part of crash barrier system with the aim to prevent damage and harm to pedestrians and vehicles when vehicles become errant and crash at the end of guardrails. Generally speaking, every 1000 meters will need two pieces of guardrail end terminals.
Sometimes, errant cars were almost penetrated by the defective designed terminal end when unavoidable impact happened. Thereby, the reasonable design is important to reduce damage to the vehicle and may save the life of its occupants. After a series of experimentation and test, guardrail terminal ends are well-designed by our company for providing a soft impact and keeping the vehicles free of being speared by terminal ends.
Generally, obvious colors are often painted on guardrail terminal end to warn the driver not to impact or noticing a transition to high volume, high sped way. So it is widely used on the side or median of the roadway as shown in the right picture.
What kind of guardrail terminal can we supply?
Generally, different types and applications of highway guardrails mean the different shapes and sizes of terminal ends. After a survey about the needs of markets, we mainly supply five kinds of guardrail terminal ends
Details:
Surface: galvanized or PVC coated
Color: any color is available (custom paintings are acceptable)
Sizes: according to the sizes and shapes of guardrails you owned
Suitable to various types of post
Key features
- Bridge, buffer, fishtail, flared and bullnose end treatments
- Turns the end of a barrier run into a crashworthy termination
- Hot-dip galvanized to AASHTO M180 with the rest of the system
- Shop-welded and jig-checked so it bolts straight to the last post
- Delivered with the bolt set and an installation sketch
Where it is used
- Barrier run terminations
- Bridge and culvert ends
- Median openings
- Road junctions and lay-bys
- Highway maintenance ends
- Depressed medians
Complete the system
A barrier is supplied as a set. These are the components that go with this item on a typical installation.
Not sure which specification fits?
Tell us the road class, design speed and the standard your client is working to. Our engineer will come back with the section, the coating weight and the post spacing that meet it — and the price for the quantity you need.
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