TY - JOUR AU - MacDonald, Andrew James AU - Wight, R. Gordon AU - Bartlett, F. Michael PY - 2016/11/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Acceptable Risk in Military Bridge Evaluation JF - Advances in Military Technology JA - AiMT VL - 11 IS - 2 SE - Research Paper DO - 10.3849/aimt.01106 UR - https://aimt.cz/index.php/aimt/article/view/1106 SP - 197-209 AB - <p class="AiMTKeywords"><em><span lang="EN-GB">In military bridge evaluation, acceptable life-safety risk in crossings should be aligned with the acceptable life-safety risk of the associated military operation.  A continuum of acceptable life-safety risk exists for military operations, thus a continuum of acceptable life-safety risk for military vehicles crossing bridges exists.  The paper relates military mission life-safety acceptable risk levels to acceptable bridge crossing life-safety risk in an approximate quantitative manner.</span></em><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><em><span lang="EN-GB">A continuum of acceptable life-safety risk for military bridge crossings provides flexibility in mission planning and execution, while providing engineers a basis to conduct military bridge evaluation that is consistent with the mission intent. </span></em></p> ER -