Design and Experimental Validation of a Rapidly Deployable Folding Floating Bridge Based on Rigid-Flexible Combination

As a temporary means of water transportation, floating bridges play an important role in the military and other fields. However, traditional have limitations such as large size, heavy weight, slow construction time. In this paper, we propose rigid-flexible composite folding bridge. The main structure bridge consists three layers: deck, airbag, bag. units are connected by flexible connectors to allow for pre-connection bridge, reducing storage transportation space, improving efficiency. proposed also has complete engineering application design been checked safety reliability (including strength, buoyancy, bearing capacity connections). We used AQWA software simulate analyze anchorage scheme its response wave loads conducted ballast test on model verify feasibility body. results show that designed advantages being lightweight, having fewer consumables, small able be constructed quickly.