Crashworthy Perforated Square Steel Tube (PSST) Mailbox Support
项目名称:
Crashworthy Perforated Square Steel Tube (PSST) Mailbox Support
摘要:
Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) desires that the mailbox support be updated to meet Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) 2016 TL-3 safety performance criteria. Very few mailbox supports have been evaluated according to MASH TL-3 specifications. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) evaluated locking architectural mailboxes on thin-wall, steel-tube supports to MASH TL-3 (TTI Report No. 9-1002-12-9). A single-mailbox mount was tested and was successful. Two multiple-mailbox (combined standard and locking architectural mailboxes) mounts were tested and both configurations failed to meet MASH TL-3. The mailbox support for multiple mailboxes was subsequently redesigned and resulted in successful MASH TL-3 tests. Due to the limited number of tested mailbox supports, NDOT desired to design and evaluate a MASH TL-3 mailbox support.