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  title info:
    title: Crash testing and evaluation of multiple mailbox supports for use with locking architectural mailboxes
  title info:
    title: Roadside safety device crash testing program
  name:
    name part: Dobrovolny, Chiara Silvestri
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bligh, Roger P.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Menges, Wanda L.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Texas
    name part: Department of Transportation.
    name part: Research and Technology Implementation Office,
    role:
      role term: sponsoring body.
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Federal Highway Administration,
    role:
      role term: sponsoring body.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M Transportation Institute
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 139 pages) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: Some homeowners and businesses are becoming increasingly concerned about mail-identity theft. Consequently, there is a growing demand for the use of locking mailboxes for theft deterrence and vandal resistance. There are a number of mailbox products on the market that offer enhanced security for mail and small parcels. They typically feature an upper hopper for incoming mail, and a lower lockable compartment for mail retrieval. These lockable mailboxes are significantly larger and can be 4 to 5 times heavier than standard lightweight mailboxes, which are approximately 5 in ches wide, 6 inches tall, and 19 inches long, and weigh less than 5 lb. Therefore, TxDOT requested evaluation of their crashworthiness before permitting their use on the state highway system. Under TxDOT Project 9-1002-12, crash tests were performed following Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) guidelines and procedures to assess the impact performance of lockable, secure mailboxes in both single and multiple-mount configurations. Testing of the larger (15 inches tall, 11.5 inches wide, and 18 inches deep), heavier (approximately 23 lb) locking mailboxes on multiple-mount support posts resulted in failure due to vehicle windshield deformation and intrusion. Under this project, crashworthiness of proposed designs for multiple-mailbox supports used with a combination of lockable and standard mailboxes was evaluated. This evaluation was performed to determine if TxDOT can permit their use on the state highway system. The crash tests were performed following the latest MASH guidelines and evaluation criteria. Two proposed designs were evaluated through full-scale crash testing: 1) 11-gauge (0.125-inch) steel tube multiple-mount support with 4-inch embedment. 2) 16-gauge (0.0625-inch) steel tube multiple-mount support with inclusion of 1/4-inch -diameter wire rope and with 6-inch embedment. Both systems satisfied all required MASH evaluation criteria at low and high impact speeds using an 1100C…
  note: by Chiara Silvestri Dobrovolny, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Rober P. Bligh, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Research Engineer, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Wanda L. Menges, Research Specialist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
  note: "Report Number FFHWA/TX-16/9-1002-15-7"--Technical report documentation page.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Technical report; September 2014--September 2015.
  note: Performed in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration 9-1002-15.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 85).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Mailboxes
    topic: Impact testing
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Mailboxes
    geographic: Texas
    topic: Design and construction
    topic: Testing
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research report (Austin, Tex.) ; no. 9-1002-15-7
  identifier: http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/9-1002-15-7.pdf
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 170413
    record change date: 20170926114949.0
    record identifier: in00003851585