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Cable Anchor and Foundation Design

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State	KS
Description Text	We are gearing up for our first cable barrier installation in March of next year. We are trying to meet a minimum anchor and post foundation design. Do you have some structural information and assumptions (soils, loads, etc) for your designs?

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Road Closure Gates
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Date October 27, 2009
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Response (active)	We actually put a TRB paper together on these topics. "Development of Guidelines for Anchor Design for High-Tension Cable Guardrails". It will be presented at the 2010 winter meeting. We can send it to you upon request. Hopefully it will address some of your problems. We have not come up with recommendations for the post foundations yet. We have run some preliminary tests, but have not finished with the work. I will update you when we get more information.

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We actually put a TRB paper together on these topics. "Development of Guidelines for Anchor
Design for High-Tension Cable Guardrails". It will be presented at the 2010 winter meeting. We can send it to you upon request.

Hopefully it will address some of your problems.

We have not come up with recommendations for the post foundations yet. We have run some preliminary tests, but have not finished with the work. I will update you when we get more information.

Date October 27, 2009
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