Samenvatting
The research described herein represented an effort to arrive at usable designs for crash cushions to be constructed from waste materials, especially scrap tires. Six full-scale crash tests were made at the Texas Transportation Institute in developing the design. A high rebound of free-wheeling vehicles as used in the tests suggests that the design should not be used where impacting vehicles could be returned to the traffic stream. Also, a frontal area softer than that used in the designs tested appears desirable to reduce the hard initial impact of light vehicles.