NATO AEP-4865 PDF

Scope and Field of Application

AEP-4865 covers loading, design, and testing requirements to be used for the development of military clear-span bridges, piers, floating bridges, rafts, equipment causeways, and erecting and launching structures that are part of the equipment. AEP-4865 is used to confirm that equipment will meet the performance specified by the user. The requirements of AEP-4865 are to be regarded as the minimum acceptable standards of performance. Requirements for fibrous composite materials and adhesives are included but may not be complete.

If different materials, bridging and gap-crossing equipment, or techniques are used to which some portions of AEP-4865 are inappropriate, the engineer is responsible for devising suitable but similar alternative provisions including the specifying and justifying of special tests.