Why do highway corrugated guardrails use reflective film?

An introduction to the reflective film’s principle of the highway corrugated guardrail:

The reflective sheeting, used for highway guardrail, is a material that can be directly applied in other fields, which can also reflect the light of cars.

In those cases, the driver can see the barriers in the road and then take immediate action.

Since various reflective sheetings have different components and designs, they have various influences.

For instance,both the embedded lens type and the sealed lens type use glass beads as the reflection technology principle, while the reflection principle of the prismatic reflective film is the refraction and reflection of the micro-prism.

Information concerning the classification of the reflective film for the highway corrugated guardrail:

The backing of the reflective film is divided into pressure-sensitive type and heat-sensitive type, and the bottom plate is an aluminum plate.

Both temperatures for working must be over 18 degrees centigrades.

What’s more, they serve a life normally is 3 to 7 years, and their positive impact brightness (0.2o/-4o) is generally around 100cd/lx/m.

After 7 years, the brightness drops to 50% of the initial brightness value.

The reflective film influences coefficient of lens-sealed reflective film is at least twice that of lens-embedded reflective film.

The vacuum support structure inside it also solves the problem of condensation on traffic safety signs caused by changes, like temperature and environment, which improves the material’s ability to reflect to some extent.

The reflective film of large-angle microprisms will not have much attenuation at large incident angles and observation angles.

Therefore, our economical highway guardrail reflective film is mostly used in places with multiple lanes and curves where traffic safety signs are required.

The application of reflective film in traffic signs:

Different types of highways will utilize different levels of reflective sheeting to make signs, which are usually designed for roads with faster speeds (such as expressways, first-class highways, etc.) to provide reflective films with a high reflectivity coefficient and reflection brightness.

Nowadays, some cities ‘ roads in many economically developed areas also require taking advantage of super reflective sheeting to make traffic signs,which, on the one hand, can enhance safety, and on the other hand, can make these roads become beautiful.

Generally speaking,slow-speed roads (such as provincial roads and national roads) are designed to use high-grade reflective film; some temporary signs usually use low-grade reflective film.

Why do people stick the reflective stickers on highway guardrails?

We always see the colorful reflective sticker in the traffic facilities, particularly on the road corrugated guardrail, which is very common.

The original purpose of it is to enhance the visibility and reduce the accidents on the roads because the drivers can’t see the objects clearly; in other words, more accidents are occurring.

With the purpose of solving these problems, people will stick the reflective stickers on the highway guardrail according to the designed distance.

Some studies show that this act can enhance the effect of reflection, and the drivers will pay more attention to the roads and the safe distance because of the light that the reflective stickers produce.

The reflective sheeting recommended by XW Reflective has high-degree reflection and a wide angle, and is of great reputation.

Although the location of the traffic signs and the visibility are awful,the stickers can still remain the best reflection.

Besides, this kind of reflective sheeting is waterproof,sun-proof, and highly weather-resistant, so that it can’t be affected by the Erosion of the natural environment to some degree.

In other aspects, this can reduce the waste of resources and cost.

People utilize the advanced technology and materials, making the stickers reflect well even in some bad environments.

Whether day or night, they can attract the passersby and draw attention.