World political and economic changes over the last decade have dictated the United States Air Force (USAF) to alter its concept of operations from prepositioning forces to projecting forces into the needed area. This force projection concept generates a requirement for rapid, accurate assessment of an unfamiliar airfield's load-carrying capability with minimum logistical support. USAF development of dynamic cone penetrometer (DCP) and electric cone penetrometer (ECP) capabilities have aided in ...
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