This report is concerned with the present state of knowledge of the loads on and response of bridge barriers, which, when organized, suggests possible design criteria and methods for comparative evaluations of various material and configurationally types. These objects meant that the library study was not restricted to actual information of bridge barriers, but also encompassed related fields such as traffic engineering and missile testing. The bibliography includes all the publications directly referred to in the report together with other pertinent work. It is arranged alphabetically under the name of the senior author and anonymous notes by various public. Authorities are grouped at its beginning. In the text references are indicated by the authors names and the year of publication, i.e. (Grime and Newby, 1961)
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