DARPA Transportable Bridge Program on Track with Incredible, but Real, Performance - Future Testing Plans.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  October, 1999  

Tags: DARPA, performance

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In mid-November, UCSD will receive the next unit, a set of two treadways and the separator beams and hardware needed to assemble the full bridge. UCSD will conduct static proof tests on each treadway. In the early tests, an interesting benefit found with the carbon fiber composite unit is that it is quiet under load and just sounds safer than the aluminum transportable bridge that creaks, reducing confidence.

The next tests (after the UCSD proof tests) will be done on the full bridge unit, at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Aluminum portable bridges have a safety ...

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