Abstract:Reinforced concrete guardrail is an important safety protection structure. With the deterioration of materials and the raising of design standards, a large number of existing concrete guardrails have not met the requirements of the current norms, and it is in urgent need of upgrading and reconstruction. To overcome the drawbacks of the traditional guardrail reconstruction methods, a new assembled UHPC thin-wall composite structure reconstruction scheme for upgrading the collision capacity of the existing concrete guardrail is proposed, in which the composite structure consists of a UHPC crack-resistance and anti-collapse layer and an EPS foamed concrete energy consumption layer, and fully combines the high strength, high toughness and high durability of UHPC and the energy absorption effect of EPS foamed concrete. The feasibility and effectiveness of the scheme are verified by the full scale crash test and practical application, which can be referred for the upgrading, reconstruction and design of the similar guardrails.