The bridge surface will have double 8 ft. x 25 ft. fiber reinforced polymer deck panels
Composites Bridge Project Named CAMX 2020 Award Finalist
CAMX has named the composites bridge deck system now underway in north central Tennessee’s Morgan County as a 2020 CAMX Award Finalist in the “Combined Strength” award category. The bridge is part of a public-private partnership aimed at demonstrating fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials, or FRPs, as a fast and easy sustainable solution for improving the thousands of structurally deficient rural bridges that plague financially strapped counties across the U.S.
The coveted CAMX award allows organizations and individuals to showcase groundbreaking achievements that have the potential to change the composites and advanced materials industry. CAMX will announce the award winners during the CAMX 2020 Virtual General Session on Tuesday, September 22 at 11:00 am ET.
Structural Composites, Inc. (SCI) submitted the bridge project for the CAMX award.“This project is an excellent example of the power of collaboration,” says SCI Scott Lewitt.
Lewit said the bridge project team includes IACMI, University of Tennessee Joint Institute for Advance Materials and Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility, Composites Application Group, McKinney Excavating, Luna Innovations, Interplastic Corp, Engineered Bonding Solutions LLC, AcraLock Engineered Solutions, West System, Superior Fiberglass, METYX Composites and Compsys, Inc., Neel-Schaffer Engineering and Dr. Robert Steffen. Tennessee Department of Transportation, Florida Department of Transportation, and Federal Highway Administration are monitoring this project and providing technical guidance as needed.
Read more about the CAMX2020 award finalists here.
Read more about the bridge project here.