High-performance Composites Bridge Offers Cost-effective, Rapid Solution for Rural Tennessee Community

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A damaged, decades-old concrete bridge just off a narrow, curvy rural road in north central Tennessee's Morgan County will soon come down, and a low-cost, low-maintenance, technologically advanced composites bridge deck system with a 100-year lifespan will take its place. It is all part of a privately funded infrastructure project 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. Located one-hour northwes…