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Highway Guardrail Products

GSI carries an extensive inventory including 10 gauge and 12 gauge material.  We stock curved guardrail from 5’ to 60’ radii, a wide variety of terminal end conditions including SGTs, and a wide variety of steel and timber posts for state and non-state use.

GSI is a TxDOT-approved warehouse for guardrail and posts.

We also sell guardrail to many other states around the country, offering competitive pricing with LTL and/or truckload quantities.

 Contact us today for a free quote by calling us at 972.225.1660 ext. 23 or emailing sean@gsihighway.com.

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We STOCK what you need for delivery NOW!
Delivery available Monday through Friday, customer pick up available from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

 

GSI’S INVENTORY OF GUARDRAIL PRODUCTS INCLUDES:

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GUARDRAIL (MBGF)

POSTS (STATE & NON-STATE)

TRANSITIONS

END TREATMENTS

CRASH CUSHIONS

POST AND CABLE FENCE

  • Per TxDOT Standard PCF-05
  • Or custom per your project specifications

 

**Featured Product**

Nu-Guard™ 27 & 31 Systems

GSI is an exclusive five-state (TX,OK,AR,CO,WY) distributor of the NU-GUARD™ Strong Post 27" and 31" Guardrail Systems from Nucor Steel Marion.

 

NU-GUARD-31 strong post guardrail system                

 

 Download the NU-GUARD-27™ brochure and NU-GUARD-31™ brochure.

Watch the NU-GUARD™ Strong Post Installation Videos

 Click here to view and download the NU-GUARD™ 27 & 31 FHWA approval letter

 Click here to view and download the NU-GUARD™ installation manual

 Click here to view and download the NU-GUARD™ standard drawing

Or call Sean at 972-225-1660 ext. 23 to request a free, no obligation quote for your next project!

 

 

Advantages of using the Nu-Guard™ 27 & 31 Systems

  • Cost efficient - save money AND installation time (see installation video above)
  • 3.5" u-channel post width makes driving the post easier and faster
  • Less weight - 5# per foot vs. 8.5# or 9# per foot
  • Elongated post hole allows for rail to rise upon impact and stay with the impacting vehicle longer
  • Helps prevent vehicle override and system collapse
  • Nu-Guard™ 31 system does not require a blockout saving you additional installation time and reducing your material cost
  • Can be substituted for steel or wood posts in maintenance projects (FHWA Approved, state approval pending) - See SUV crash test below

             

Crash Test Videos

 

Standards

The following taken from TxDOT CAD Standards Webpage

AASHTO Standards

 

Guardrail Helps

For Ordering, Design, and Installation

NCHRP Project 22-23 will update this useful, but older manual

Need help with a takeoff or placing an order?
It is important we know the following to ensure you get the product you need the first time:

  • Is this a state or non-state job (state-tested inventory cannot be shipped non-state jobs).
  • If it is a state job, what is the project information?
  • How many runs are there?
  • Is the rail blocked out?
  • Do you need radiused rail? How many curves? Length? Radius of each?
  • Steel or timber posts?
  • Are there low-fill culverts that will require base-plated posts? How thick is the culvert "top"?
  • What end treatments do you need? TAS?, FEW?, SGT Type I, II, or III?
  • To what type of concrete railing are we attaching the transitions?

Radius Guardrail is either concave and convex (show below).

Concave: Bowing away from the traffic lane

Convex: Bowing towards the traffic lane

 

To find the Radius for a curved rail:

  • Step 1: Starting at the last post in the straight run (point A), lay
    cloth tape along the path that the curved guide rail will follow.
  • Step 2: Mark-off two points along the curved cloth tape: one at 6'-3", (point B) and the second at 12'-6" (point C).
  • Step 3: Pull string directly from starting point (point A) to the second mark-off point (point C).
  • Step 4: Measure from the first marked-off point (point B) over to the mid-point of the taut string. this measurement (D) is the rise or "middle ordinate."
  • Step 5: Check the chart to find the Radius (R), given the Rise (D).
  • Example: a Rise of 3 7/8" inches would result in a Radius of 60 feet.

FUNCTIONS OF A 12'-6" ARC FOR DIFFERENT RADII

Radii Rise
5
3'-5"
10
1'-10 ¾"
15
1'-3 3/8"
20
11 5/8"
25
9 3/8"
30
7 ¾"
35
6 5/8"
40
5 7/8"
45
5 ¼"
50
4 5/8"
55
4 ¼"
60
3 7/8"
70
3 3/8"
80
3"
90
2 5/8"
100
2 3/8"

 

Training

ATSSA offers extensive guardrail installation and longitudinal barrier system training

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You can join ATSSA and be a part of their vital Guardrail Services Division.

FHWA RT-90-001 W-Beam Guardrail Repair and Maintenance soon to be updated by NCHRP Project 22-23Criteria for Restoration of Longitudinal Barriers

 

Research

ATSSA Paper: W-Beam Guardrail Reduces the Number and Severity of Run-Off-Road Crashes

 

Answers to Photos on Guardrail Brochure

  1. Convex W-Beam Radius Guardrail with Composite Blockouts and Steel Line Posts
  2. W-Beam Guardrail with Steel Line Posts
  3. Single Guardrail Terminal (ET-2000)
  4. Terminal Anchor Section (a.k.a. Turndown)
  5. Domed Timber Post with Composite Blockout
  6. Thrie Beam Terminal Connector, Thrie Beam Guardrail, and Thrie Beam to W-Beam Transition
  7. Single Guardrail Terminal (SKT-350)
  8. W-Beam Terminal Connector
  9. Midwest Guardrail System (MGS) Asymmetrical W-Beam to Thrie-Beam Transition
  10. Flared End Wing (a.k.a. “Lobster Tail”)

Contact us today for a free quote!

Sean Blair, Inside Sales Representative
(972) 225-1660 ext. 23

(972) 225-6662 fax
sean@gsihighway.com

Providing takeoff assistance is just another value-added service we're happy to offer!


All our products are TxDOT approved.
We have been doing business in Texas for over 38 years.
WE STAND BEHIND OUR REPUTATION!