A Feasibility Study on the Development of MFB Military Bridge

Recent developments in the field of military bridge have heightened the need for improving of MFB military bridge under various types of military vehicles. However, little attention has been paid to influence of significant parameters playing a key role in dynamic behavior of such bridges. This paper seeks to fill such a gap by carrying out finite element (FE) analysis on an existing steel connection of MFB military bridge. For this purpose, MFB bridge is simulated by finite element software, Midas Gen. Moving load analyses are carried out to obtain the maximum moment and stress as well as the displacement of the simulated model, respectively, under a tank load at 60 tons. These results will be useful to study through the lug connection analysis to fabricate the real one in the future.