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Containment Level
Dynamic Defection
Post Spacing
CE Approval Number
3 rope
N2
W5
1.6m
3.2m
CPD-0190
4 rope
N2
W4
1.2m
3.2m
CPD-0193
4 rope
H1
W7
2.6m
3.2m
CPD-0194
On your marks!
CE marking (also known as CE
mark) is a mandatory conformance
mark placed on the single market
in the European Economic Area
(EEA). The marking certifes that
a product has met European
Directives regarding consumer
safety, health or environmental
requirements. The letters CE do not represent any specifc
words, though they may have initially stood for Communaut
Europenne (European Community) or Conformit
Europenne (European Conformity).
By affxing the CE marking to a product, the manufacturer
declares that it meets EU health and safety and environmental
requirements.
Existing in its present form since 1993, the CE marking is a
key indicator of a products compliance with EU legislation
and enables the free movement of products within the
European market. By affxing the CE marking on a product,
a manufacturer is declaring conformity with all of the legal
requirements to achieve CE marking and therefore ensuring
validity for that product to be sold throughout the European
Economic Area.
Testing to EN1317 is no longer suffcient to enable a WRSF
to be sold throughout the European Economic Area.
Only CE Marking approval guarantees acceptance for sale
throughout Europe.
Brifen Worldwide
brifen
The Brifen wire rope safety fence was
developed in the mid 1980s for use on
dual carriageways medians and verges.
The patented system comprises of
wire ropes and steel posts deployed
in a unique arrangement, enabling
impacting vehicles to smoothly
decelerate and be redirected with
minimal damage. The impact severity
is lower than with steel guardrail and
concrete, consequently reducing the
risk of injury to driver and passengers.
V Eshwaran
Al Ain
United Arab Emirates
Brifen India
Brifen
Bringing Road Safety to INDIA
Wire Rope Safety Fence
The contribution that Brifen has made to save lives on our
roads worldwide is immense. Today the Wire Rope Safety
Fence (WRSF) from Brifen is the most technically advanced
and reliable system for road safety. It was developed in the
mid 1980s for use on dual carriageways medians and verges.
The patented system comprises wire ropes and steel posts
deployed in a unique arrangement, enabling impacting
vehicles to smoothly decelerate and be redirected with
minimal damage. The impact severity is lower than with steel
guardrail and concrete, consequently reducing the risk of
injury to driver and passengers.
Advantages
Ease and speed of installation
Rapid repair, giving low maintenance cost
Low life cycle cost
Aesthetically pleasing appearance
Presents no obstacle to airborne sand or snow,
avoiding drifting
Life cycle costing
Post
Height from
Surface
3 Rope WRSF
686 mm
4 Rope WRSF
1040 mm
Post
Sections
Top Range
Height from
Surface
Standard
Post
Centers
100 x 32 x 6
585 mm
3200 mm
100 x 55 x 4.85
930 mm
3200 mm
Wire Rope
Details
Brifen India
As we are investing huge public money and resources on building roads and highways, it is important that the road furniture on
these is of highest international standards - no compromises must be made. The road builders, developers and government
must look at the 'Life Cycle Cost' of the asset they are creating. They will go a long way in improving India's road safety record.
Early Success
800 meters of Brifen Rope Safety Fence was installed in
Gwalior, Morena section of National Highway-3 for the
National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The location
chosen by NHAI, PIU unit was a median of a sharp curve
which had a storm water drain running through it. Many
accidents were reported in this area owing to fast moving
traffic and sudden onset on the curve often leading to major
injuries along with many vehicles ending up in the storm
drain. The existing makeshift barriers installed previously
comprising of metal posts and pipes were completely
destroyed by these accidents.
Since the installation of Brifen WRSF at this location (Gwalior)
in the month of May 2012,2 major and 3 minor impacts have
been reported on the fence. In all cases, the vehicles were
able to be driven away immediately after the impact with very
minor damages and no fatality reported to the passengers.
Contact :
V ESHWARAN
Hill & Smith Infrastructure Products India Pvt. Ltd.
T : + 91 124 4009208
F: + 91 124 4009408
M : + 91 9811307918
E : v.eshwaran@hsipi.in
www.hsipi.in
Clearance Criteria
The minimum clearance shall be 1.6m when the support posts
of the WRSF are spaced at 3.2m centres and 1.4m when
spaced at 2.4m centres.
Post Foundations
These are designed to resist a 10.25kn horizontal shear force
co-existent with a bending moment of 6.0kn/m at 90 degrees
to the safety fence.
End Anchorage
Each single cable anchorage shall be subjected to a maximum
loading of 65kn derived from vehicle re-direction forces. Each
3 cable anchorage shall resist a maximum loading of 150kn
derived from vehicle re-direction forces.
Tested to EN1317 H1
Tests that show Brifen can stop trucks confirms what many
already knew, this is the most effective safety barrier on
highways for saving lives.
A 10 ton truck sent crashing into Brifen at 50 miles an hour
confirmed in test conditions the evidence from real-life crash
locations around the world that Brifen is capable of holding
trucks. The result came from Britains Motor Industry Research
Association (MIRA) when Brifen was tested for the first time
to European H1 requirements.
Results
Impact severity was ASI A and exit angle low. The dynamic
defection was 2.7m.
Executives Derek Muir and Mark Tonks from Brifens parent
company Hill and Smith, remarked, We know from anecdotal
evidence from police, fencing contractors and motorists
themselves that Brifen has held trucks many times in its H1
standard, but it is something else to prove it at MIRA. We are
here to run a business and sell a product, but we are also here
to save lives.
Product Info
Brifen WRSF is an attractive option to strong-post metal beam
guardrail, concrete or steel box beam barriers. It blends into
sensitive local environments and does not impede drainage
or cause snow or sand drifting. Its most important aspect,
however, is that it is a cost-effective barrier that is relatively
soft to hit and rarely results in injury to vehicle occupants. First
introduced in the US on a median project in Oklahoma City on
the Hefner Parkway it had already been in use in over 30 other
countries since 1989. It is now manufactured and distributed in
the United States by Brifen USA, Inc. located in Oklahoma City
and is currently used in over 30 states.
Brifen Thailand
Bullets &
Bombs dont
stop Brifen!
With bullets fying and petrol bombs being
hurled, the installation was no mean feat and it
was down to the sheer determination from Lek
and her team that the fence got installed.
When the BMA chose Brifen to complete an installation on one
of the citys most heavily used and dangerous roads amongst
the chaos of the red shirt riots in June 2010 safety soon
became paramount.
Product:
Brifen Wire Rope Safety Fence
Client:
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)
Details:
1.3 Km of Brifen wire rope installed
Lek Supaporn
Licencee & Distributor
PT & T Trading & Civil Works Co Ltd
54/170 Pinkalo Road
Bangramaad
Talingchan District
Bangkok
Thailand
Tel: +66 2 448 3727
Brifen Iceland
Iceland
Brifen was the hot topic in Iceland as the first
ever installations of the wire rope system were
made at the brink of the Icelandic winter 2006.
Icelands main highway the aptly named No.1 road was the
scene of the first installation on the southbound stretch near
the capital Reykjavik.
More than 50,000 meters of WRSF 4 wire rope systems have
been installed since this first installation in 2006. It has been
preventing serious accidents and saving lives.
There is one installation of 4600 metres which is a 2+1
solution helping to prevent head on collisions in a 3 lane
situation. It was installed of one of the most dangerous
stretches of highway on the ring road around the island. After
the installation there have not been any serious accidents.
There is continually growing interest from the Icelandic Road
Administration to continue to install Brifen on both medians,
verges and slopes, as the results have been so dramatic in
reducing accidents
The future is very bright for Brifen WRSF in Iceland.
Contact:
Ragnar Gnr
Tel: +(354) 5870650 / Mobile +(354) 8942130
Fax:+(354) 5870651
gnyr@gnyr.is
www.gnyr.is
M62 maintenance
M62 maintenance
dead stop meaning that the occupants vital organs are less likely
to be spread around their rib-cage and the vehicles payload is
less likely to be spread across the road.
In more restrictive conditions where Working Width is minimal
and impact severity is, very severe, then there is a higher
likelihood of poorly restrained loads, and in some cases
passengers, being strewn across the carriageway, even though
the vehicle stops dead.
In severe impacts there is nearly always a clear up operation,
steel beam nearly always needs replacing and even concrete
barrier is not exempt. In an accident in early 2011 on the M1
north of Junction 34 Meadowhall, where a hole was punched in
the Concrete Step Barrier, the M1 had to be closed to recover
the vehicle and clean up the debris that was spread all over
the carriageway by the impact. It also required overnight lane
closures to fx the hole.
Wire Rope is usually reusable, and can usually be restrung while
the clean up operation is taking place. This means that by the
time the accident is cleared, the barrier is usually fully functional
again; and if it is feared that the rope is deformed or damaged
then the rope can be re-strung at a rate of approximately 200m
per hour.
Wire Rope Posts are in place primarily to set the rope at the
correct height, this means that they sacrifcial, relatively thin and
socketed, which means they tend to do less damage to errant
vehicles are easily replaced and recycled, (no concrete base
tochip off the bottom of the post).
During heavy snowfall then A Routes, like the A616, A628 and
A57 Snake Pass in the South and A66 in the North, are unlikely
to remain open. Without the M62 there would be no viable route
over the Pennines.
It had been suggested that due to climate change there wouldnt
be any more extreme snowfalls. The latest Wire Rope VRS, the
third system for the M62 was renewed in the winter of 2009/10
had TD 19 been dogmatically followed then in November 2010
it is likely that the M62 could have suffered its frst blockage by
snow; what would be the consequence of 3000 vehicles per hour
coming to a standstill in freezing conditions?
As for the primary function of the Wire Rope VRS, there is little
speculation about the performance, no estimates, the fact is that
two previous wire rope systems have lasted 40 years since this
section of the M62 opened in1970.
It has required and received minimal maintenance and there
are no records of the Wire Rope VRS ever being breached, so
regardless of its BS EN 1317 classifcation, it performance shows
that in this situation it is high containment and low impact.
The low impact severity due to the stretching effect means that
the vehicle occupants and payload are less likely to come to a
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Brifen is now approved by the Ministry of Communications in
Riyadh and following many visits to the region, Jan Demmink
has secured several important orders.
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi municipality has approved Brifen as supplier of
wire rope safety fence after many discussions and a lengthy
approval procedure.
Jan Demmink, Middle East Marketing Manager for Brifen
reports that a substantial contract to supply a three-rope
system on a new road in a remote part of the western region
was placed immediately after the approval.
Jan A Demmink
UAE
The Al Ain municipality in the east of the UAE also recently
approved Brifen as the supplier of both their three and four
rope systems.
Oman
Brifen have just received approval for the completion of the
frst project in Oman. See image above
www.moddus.in
T : + 91 124 4009208
F: + 91 124 4009408
M : + 91 9811307918
E : v.eshwaran@hsipi.in
www.hsipi.in
www.hill-smith.co.uk / www.hsipi.in