INVESTING IN THE TRANSPORTATION LEADERS OF TOMORROW : The University Transportation Centers Program

摘要

The ATLAS is a massive, 70-ton machine-its name expresses its powerful utility. The Accelerated Transportation Loading Assembly tests the limits of some of the world's strongest, most advanced transportation materials. Pavement systems designed to withstand hundreds of thousands of landings by commercial aircraft or rail ties engineered to carry the massive hauls of freight trains are subjected to immense pressures to gauge their durability. The data from ATLAS help engineers design materials that will define transportation now and in the future.