The structural health of bridges is a crucial issue in both military and civilian sectors. In military teams, knowing the condition or health of a bridge is key to both mobility planning and deployment in battle situations, and to military ascot management in peso time. In to defense arena, lives, battles, and wars can hang in the balance. In the battlefield environment, military bridges are vied tactical assets, and are absolutely critical for the rapid, safe movement of troops and equipment across both natural and constructed terrain gaps. From a historical perspective, the force which controls the gap to be crossed hasthe battlefield advantage knowledge of the capacity and hea1th of theof the bridge in a real-time, dynamic fashion, as well as remaining life, will be a force multiplier for improving the mobility control of the battlefield commander. An innovative system concept is proposed, comprising the selection and integration of appropriate sensors and a unique, intelligent microprocessor control module. The system will allow the needed data to be sensed, converted to bridge health informationand stored for transmission to field contend and control centers or vehicle commanders.
Benefits: A direct military market exists for thesystem retrofitted to the DoD's current assault and support bridge inventory. Also, there in a large civilian market since 35, of our nation's 575,000 bridges are eland fled as deficient and would benefit fromimproved condition monitoring.
