Modern structures of military logistic bridges

Abstract

The growing paste of military operations, as well as the increased involvement of the Armed Forces in countering the ramifications of natural disasters, impacts the design solutions used for military bridging systems. The most vital optimization factor is the speed of deployment to which all the structural solutions are subject. Another determinant is a wide range of the parameters of the gap to be crossed using one bridging structure transported using typical means of transportation, including its width and the height of the banks. There is a worldwide tendency to fill the space between the treadways, making them more solid and thus much more usable for civilian vehicle traffic as well. That in turn makes them a provisional replacement for the damaged bridge infrastructure used by the population. This poses a number of challenges to be tackled by the state-of-the-art line-of-communication (LOC) bridges and both the close- and general support bridges, which seem to assume the tasks of the LOC bridges.