426results about "Floating bridges" patented technology

A mounting system is disclosed for mounting structures and equipment such as wind-electric generators on water. The structure is attached to a carrier, which is attached to a foundation through connecting elements. Buoyancy tanks or the inherent buoyancy of the carrier or the connecting elements are used to maintain a stable position of the carrier in the water. Utilizing connecting elements that transfer pushing and pulling force undesirable movements of the carrier are suppressed while requiring only moderate forces on the foundation.

The flexible panel is made of juxtaposed rectangular bars each having holes extending transversely therein and elastic cords threaded through these holes for keeping the bars closely positioned side-by-side. Adjacent bars have a shiplap joint there between comprising a first notch in the top surface and the first side surface of a first bar, and a second notch in the bottom surface and the second side surface of the second bar, wherein these notches have overlapping horizontal surfaces. In another aspect of the present invention, each hole along the shiplap joint is made of two separable cylindrical grooves facing each other and forming a closed cylindrical wall when the shiplap joint is integral and a separable segment when the shiplap joint is pulled apart.

The bridge is constructed of one inner tube and an outer tube surrounding the inner tube. The inner and outer tube are joined to each other by connecting pipes welded to the outer surface of the inner tube and to the inner surface of the outer tube so that the inner tube and the outer tube are connected to each other through said connecting pipes whereby a rigid composite structure is formed. The tubes and pipes are preferably laser welded to each other, preferably by a continuous seam.

A temporary platform or roadway is created using one or a plurality of optionally connected support components to form a top surface upon which panels are placed. The support components are comprised of gabion containers having one or a plurality of compartments into which a filler material is inserted. The filler material can optionally be composed of a buoyant material such as expanded polystyrene to enable flotation. A method for constructing the roadway or platform of the present invention is also disclosed.

The invention provides a folding box, a floating bridge, an erection method, a pile foundation loading device and a load providing method, which realize folding and unfolding, and solve the problems of large storage space and transportation difficulty of the box body in the construction. Includes an upper support assembly, a lower support assembly and a side panel assembly arranged between the upper support assembly and the lower support assembly and foldable; The floating bridge comprises a plurality of groups of folding boxes, wherein the folding boxes are inflated in the capsule, the plurality of groups of folding boxes are respectively arranged side by side along the length and width direction of the floating bridge to form a floating bridge, the two sides of the floating bridge are respectively connected with side anchors by side anchor cables, and the adjacent folding boxes are fixedly connected by fasteners; The pile foundation loading device comprises a loading detection loading detection base, a folding box and supporting columns, water injection in a bag of the folding box, one or more loading layers are arranged on the loading detection base, each loading layer comprisesa plurality of groups of folding boxes arranged side by side, and a plurality of supporting columns are arranged between an upper supporting component and a lower supporting component of each group of the folding boxes.

A bridge for long, deep water crossings is supported between spans by narrow, transverse, semi-submersible pontoons. The pontoons are oriented to present minimal cross section to tidal currents under the bridge. The pontoons are pivotally attached to the bridge allowing them to be turned a few degrees right or left as tidal currents change. During fabrication, a module of bridge deck / roadway can be assembled for transport upon each pontoon deck. After remote fabrication two or more complete bridge modules can be linked pontoon-to-pontoon into a seaworthy vessel that can be towed to the erection site. At site the roadway modules are rotated transverse to the pontoon, elevated to final position and joined to other modules, completing the bridge.

A mounting system is disclosed for mounting structures and equipment, such as wind-electric generators on water. The structure is attached to a carrier, which is attached to a foundation through connecting elements. Buoyancy tanks or the inherent buoyancy of the carrier or the connecting elements are used to maintain a stable position of the carrier in the water. Utilizing connecting elements that transfer pushing and pulling forces, undesirable movements of the carrier are suppressed while requiring only moderate forces on the foundation.

The invention discloses an inflatable floating bridge. The floating bridge comprises a floating bridge main body. The floating bridge main body comprises a floating bridge floating body and a floating bridge deck. The floating bridge floating body is formed by sequentially connecting multiple groups of inflatable floating bodies through connecting assemblies, and the floating bridge deck is arranged on the upper part of the floating bridge main body. In use, the inflatable floating bridge can be inflated and formed rapidly through an electric air pump or a compressed gas cylinder, and the inflatable floating bridge is inflated and connected section by section and extends inwards continuously along with the inflation and forming till reaching the opposite bank. When the inflatable floating bridge is stored, the floating body is deflated after the combination deck is drawn back, and the floating body can be folded and packed after being deflated, so that storage and transportation are very convenient. Therefore the inflatable floating bridge is fast and convenient in installation, convenient to store and transport, and low in cost, and is preferred novel equipment for marching and battling of troops.

The invention relates to a multifunctional floating type offshore platform which aims at achieving the offshore maintenance purpose of an existing platform. Multiple parallel cross beams and multiple parallel longitudinal beams are fixedly connected together in a criss-cross staggered manner; multiple parallel rectangular cases are spaced; each case is hinged to a buoyancy tank, wherein the top face of each buoyancy tank is a plane, the front end face and the rear end face of each buoyancy tank are hinged to the corresponding cross beams, two sides and the lower face of each buoyancy tank are downward-protruding arc-shaped walls, and the lower portion of each buoyancy tank is immersed under the sea surface in the load bearing process; and rotary drive locking or stabilizing devices of the buoyancy tanks are arranged between the buoyancy tanks and the corresponding cross beams. The platform is provided with an offshore compressed air energy storage power station supported by built-in compressed air storage tanks or storage pipes of the buoyancy tanks. A power source of the offshore compressed air energy storage power station is selected from a submarine cable power source, an offshore wave power generation power source, an offshore tidal power generation power source, an offshore wind power generation power source and an offshore photovoltaic power generation power source. The multifunctional floating type offshore platform has the beneficial effects that dry dock type maintenance can be conducted in place on the sea, the platform can float on the sea continuously, the service life is long, the operation cost is low, and the platform is particularly suitable for being used as a permanent supporting platform of an offshore base and suitable for being used as an offshore channel crossing the sea.

The invention relates to an immediate processing method for hydraulic filling an ultra-soft foundation by modified vacuum preloading and water-covering preloading. The technical proposal of the invention comprises the following steps of: building a float bridge on a mud area in a causeway, laying a plastic woven cloth on the mud area, fixing the plastic woven cloth on the causeway and the float bridge, horizontally laying a water discharge branch pipe on the plastic woven cloth, inserting a plastic water discharge board around the water discharge branch pipe in the mud of the mud area, horizontally laying a water discharge main pipe on the plastic woven cloth in the direction perpendicular to the water discharge branch pipe, connecting one end of the water discharge main pipe to a vacuum pump, laying a geotextile on the water discharge main pipe and the water discharge branch pipe, laying a vacuum film on the geotextile, and arranging a water load on the vacuum film. The invention solves the technical problems of unenforceable construction existing in the traditional vacuum preloading foundation treatment method, and has the advantages of simple process, convenient construction and lowered cost. Besides, after the hydraulic filling of the foundation is completed, the foundation can be immediately processed, thereby greatly shortening the foundation processing period, and ensuring that the invention is a very economical and practical soft foundation processing method.

A buoyant walkway or island and its method of manufacture. In a preferred embodiment, the buoyant walkway comprising: an internal frame comprising semi-rigid members that are attached to one another, said internal semi-rigid frame having openings; an internal block disposed in each of said openings, said internal blocks being spaced apart from one another by gaps and forming a top surface and a bottom surface; cured thermoplastic foam disposed in said gaps that attach said internal blocks to said semi-rigid internal frame and to one another; a permeable top layer that is attached to said top surface; and a bottom layer that is attached to said bottom surface.

A floating latticework is suitable for a latticework, a truss-frame structure and a net-shell structure over water. The floating latticework is the combination of a latticework (1) and a floating structure (2), or members of the latticework (1) in themselves are able to float. The floating structure (2) makes the latticework (1) floated over water, the surface of upper chords of which is in form of a platy structure or covered and fixed with a platy structure, as a plane used for loading. There is an advantage that the space-structure floating body is less influenced by wind and wave, which go through its space. A ship structure and a cofferdam structure are parallel solutions with the above solution. Their skeletons are net-shell structure, wherein they are provided with high structural strength.

The easy navigation type oversea floating bridge includes successively connected floated sections, underwater anchoring blocks, connecting sections and easy navigation pipe. The easy navigation pipe has several passages, each of which has middle part is suspended under the water surface and in the certain depth and two ends on the water surface connected to floating bridge. Train and automobile can pass through the floating bridge and the easy navigation pipe, while ship can navigate in the water over the easy navigation pipe conveniently. Compared with submarine tunnel, the oversea floating bridge has much lower construction cost and short construction period.

The invention discloses a floating structure connected by a tension connector with adjustable length. Floating body cells are connected by the tension connector with adjustable length, and elastic buffer material is installed among the floating body cells; a pull force is borne by the tension connector; a pressure is borne by the elastic buffer material and the floating body cells; and a shear force is borne by an inclined tension connector which forms an angle with a connection surface. Both a rigid joint and a hinge joint of the combined floating structure have certain elasticity and can bear a large wave load. Because the length of the tension connector can be adjusted and the requirement on the manufacturing precision of the floating body cells is low, bigger floating body cells can be used so that a bigger floating structure can be combined. Because of being not welded together with the floating body cells, the tension connector can be changed so that the service life of the floating structure is not limited by the fatigue life of the connector.

A system to lay a bridge between two banks, wherein said system firstly comprises a bridge carrying vehicle constituted by a remote-controlled self-propelled platform incorporating means to deploy and retract said bridge, said platform being unmanned and armor-free, and secondly a control post comprising means to communicate with said platform.

A gangway apparatus (10) for transfer between vessels or between a vessel (38) and a fixed structure such as an offshore construction or a quay is disclosed. The gangway apparatus (10) includes a gangway component (16) which is preferably buoyant and may be inflatable. The gangway component (16) is mounted on a skate or bogie and traverses a fixedly mounted runway (14). The runway (14) may be inclined. Control means are provided for controlling the motion of the gangway component on the runway. These may include biasing means such as a counterweight. The apparatus is preferably mounted in a shipping container such as a 40′ ISO container.

A folded power-driven floating bridge includes a plurality of floating bodies which are connected front and back, the multiple floating bodies include left bridge floor tanks and right bridge floor tanks which are arranged side by side, the right side portion of each left bridge floor tank is mutually hinged to the left side portion of the corresponding right bridge floor tank through a hinging device, and two sides of the bottoms of the left and right bridge floor tanks are separately and perpendicularly connected with two sheet bodies; and a plurality of mutually independent air bags are arranged between every two sheet bodies, bottom surfaces of the sheet bodies are provided with driving wheels and driven wheels, downward-extending full convolution oars are arranged at middle portions of the front and rear ends of the left and the right bridge floor tanks, and the front ends of the left and right bridge floor tanks are provided with cushion rubber and supporting columns which are located in the cushion rubber. The folded power-driven floating bridge can not only be folded to reduce the size, the weight is light and the flotage is relatively high, but also has an action capability on land and water, and is convenient to transport and use.

The invention relates to a device for making a walkway from a vessel to an object which is more or less stationary relative to the vessel and has a gangplank attached to the vessel. The gangplank has a top surface and near the end of the gangplank a coupling element for enclosing a horizontal pipe attached to the stationary object. According to the invention, the coupling element is fitted below the top surface, and near the coupling element on the underside in the longitudinal direction of the gangplank the gangplank has a narrow supporting edge for supporting the gangplank on the pipe. The invention also comprises a method for the use of the device.

A reusable panel system for the construction of load bearing surfaces, such as temporary or semi-permanent roadways and equipment support and work surfaces laid out over geologically unstable surfaces or over wet-land marshes. The individual panels of the present invention may interlock on one or more sides to form stable and continuous load bearing surfaces.

A durable, quickly deployable temporary floating breakwater (FBW) can protect areas in austere locations. A plurality of inflatable modules is encapsulated within a common cover, which holds the modules together and in some embodiments supports a causeway thereupon. A separate floating causeway can be included. Embodiments include a semi-permeable “sloping beach” section which causes waves to break before reaching the FBW. A bed of wave-energy-absorbing synthetic kelp can be attached to the sloping beach. The beach and / or kelp can include low-surface-energy fibers and films, such as olefins and polypropylenes, to remove oil from the water in case of an oil spill or accident. In embodiments, the FBW can be temporarily sunk to avoid extremely high seas, ice, and / or other surface hazards. The FBW is lightweight, can be quickly and compactly stowed, and in some embodiments can be transported and deployed from the deck of an LCU 1610.

The invention discloses a suspension platform with an approach bridge and a construction method of the suspension platform. The suspension platform with the approach bridge comprises a suspension component, a positioning component, a positioning pile and an approach bridge body, buoyant boxes are connected to form the suspension component, the positioning component is connected to the side face of the suspension component, the positioning pile is fixedly connected to a water bottom ground, the positioning component is movably connected to the outer side of the positioning pile in a sleeving manner, one end of the approach bridge body is hinged to a bank side platform, and a second end of the approach bridge body is provided with a roller and lapped on the upper surface of the suspension component through the roller. The suspension platform with the approach bridge has the advantages that horizontal movement of the buoyant boxes is limited by the positioning component connected to the outer side of the positioning pile in the sleeving manner, so that the positions of the buoyant boxes can be accurately limited, and the buoyant boxes can vertically move by the aid of the positioning component, so that the suspension component comprising the buoyant boxes can adjust the height along with change of water level to adapt to different water levels.

A temporary platform or roadway is created using one or a plurality of optionally connected support components to form a top surface upon which panels are placed. The support components are comprised of gabion containers having one or a plurality of compartments into which a filler material is inserted. The filler material can optionally be composed of a buoyant material such as expanded polystyrene to enable flotation. A method for constructing the roadway or platform of the present invention is also disclosed.

The invention belongs to the field of water lifesaving and provides a portable self-inflating lifesaving device including a retractable structural skeleton. The structural skeleton may be expanded from a folded or compressed state to an expanded state, and the space enclosed by the structural skeleton in the expanded state is greater than the space enclosed by the structural skeleton in the foldedor compressed state. The device also includes an airbag made of an airtight water-proof material, and is enclosed in the airbag, and the airbag is provided with an air vent hole provided with a ventilation switch. As that skeleton expands from a folded or compressed state to an expanded state, the airbag is also correspondingly supported by the structural framework to be in an expanded state froma folded or compressed state, when the airbag is expanded, the ventilation switch is in an open state, the external air enters the airbag through the air vent hole, the ventilation switch is closed,the air is sealed in the airbag, and the airbag can generate buoyancy in water for water rescue.

A structure, which after construction is mobile and dynamic and connects two points separated by a natural or manmade obstacle, allows permanent crossing of this obstacle. The structure comprises a deformable deck (1) extending between said two points, a set of elements (2, 3), of elongate shape, having three openings (5A, 5A', 5B), a first opening (5A, 5A') at each end of the elements (2, 3) and an intermediate second opening (5B) positioned between the first two openings (5A, 5A') present at the ends of the elements (2, 3), said openings (5, 5A, 5A') accepting ball joints used to form hinges (4), each element (2, 3) being made up of a short first part between a first opening (5A) and the intermediate opening (5B) and of a longer second part between the other first opening (5A') and the intermediate opening (5B), the elements (2, 3) being arranged in pairs, with rotational mobility, about a central hinge (4) consisting of a ball in the intermediate openings (5B) of two elements (2, 3). An assembly of a number of pairs of elements (2, 3), which assembly is achieved using balls inserted into the openings (5A, 5A') arranged at the ends of each element (2, 3), is arranged along the deck (1), on one side or on both sides of the deck (1) in a plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of said hinges (4) and allowing relative movement of the elements (2, 3) from a first position towards a second position which movement takes place in said plane perpendicular to the axis of the hinges (4). Drive means (8) are positioned at one or both ends of said structure in order to adjust the length of the deck (1). The structure comprises drive means (8) arranged in such a way that when the means (8) come into action, they drive the assembly of pairs of elements (2, 3), said short parts of the elements (2, 3) being positioned on the upper part of the pairs of elements (2, 3) which are arranged at the ends of the structure while said short parts of the elements (2, 3) are arranged on the lower part of the pairs of elements (2, 3) which are arranged towards the centre of the structure so as to cause the central part of the deck (1) to adopt a dome shape when the means (8) are actuated.

A retractable dock having a ramp, with first forward and aft sides, extending from a bulkhead toward water. The first aft side joins the bulkhead via a locking mechanism. All locking mechanisms allow rotation. The dock has an aft floating assembly with an aft bridge and second aft and forward sides. The second aft side joins the first forward side of the ramp via a second locking mechanism. The aft float assembly has an aft floating unit floating on water supporting the aft bridge. The aft floating unit joins the aft bridge by another locking mechanism. The second locking mechanism joins to the ramp and either the second aft side or aft floating unit. The dock has a forward floating assembly with a forward bridge joined to the aft bridge configured for extension and retraction. The forward floating assembly has a forward floating unit floating under the forward bridge supporting it.

The invention provides a water bag and air bag combined floating bridge. According to the water bag and air bag combined floating bridge, vehicles and persons can pass safely, and a wave resisting effect can also be achieved; rapid installation and construction can be achieved, and the warehousing and transportation space and weight can be greatly reduced. According to the technical scheme, the water bag and air bag combined floating bridge comprises a water surface air bag set, a water bag set arranged below the water surface air bag set, a pipeline assembly used for inflating the water surface air bag set and injecting water into the water bag set, and a rapid bridge deck arranged on the water surface air bag set.