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The use of fiberglass products in traffic safety facilities.


Release time:

2019/04/03

Traffic safety facilities are installed along roads to ensure the safety of vehicles and pedestrians, fully utilize the road's function, and play a crucial role in ensuring driving safety, reducing the severity of traffic accidents, beautifying the road landscape, smoothing traffic flow, and improving driving comfort. Currently, the materials used for traffic safety facilities are primarily steel. Over time, the surface of the steel can be damaged due to chemical reactions or electrochemical actions with surrounding media, leading to rust. This not only reduces the cross-sectional area of the steel but also degrades its performance, potentially rendering it unusable. In today's context of continuous development of new processes and materials, the variety of traffic safety facilities is also evolving.

The use of fiberglass products in traffic safety facilities.

Traffic safety facilities are laid along the road to ensure the safety of vehicles and pedestrians, fully utilize the role of the road, and play a crucial role in ensuring driving safety, reducing the severity of traffic accidents, beautifying the road landscape, smoothing traffic flow, and improving driving comfort.

Currently, the materials used for traffic safety facilities are mainly steel. Over time, the surface of the steel is damaged by chemical or electrochemical actions with the surrounding medium, leading to rust. This not only reduces the cross-sectional area of the steel but also degrades its performance, potentially rendering it unusable. With the continuous development of new processes and materials, the variety and performance of traffic safety facilities are also constantly improving to meet the demands of transportation development for safety facilities, fully realizing the economic and social benefits of highways.

Fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) is a composite plastic made of fiberglass reinforced unsaturated polyester, epoxy resin, and phenolic resin as the matrix material. Compared to traditional metal and non-metal materials, FRP materials and their products have characteristics such as corrosion resistance, good electrical insulation, slow heat transfer, good thermal insulation, high strength, excellent performance, energy saving, high design freedom, good performance under instantaneous high temperatures, ease of coloring, and wide adaptability of product use. Due to its unique characteristics and functions, FRP products are beginning to stand out in the field of traffic safety facilities.

In recent years, many companies have started to develop a series of fiberglass traffic safety facilities such as fiberglass anti-glare boards, fiberglass guardrails, fiberglass marker posts, and fiberglass crash barrels. Currently, fiberglass safety facility products made from fiberglass have secured a place in highway traffic safety facilities.