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Products Tensile Structure Systems
Tensile Structure Systems (TSS) offers a variety of modular tension fabric membrane structures and tensile cable and post structures. Already own a fabric structure? We offer refurbishment, new fabric panels, repairs, engineering reviews and relocation to a new site. Want to sell a structure? We will purchase your existing structure and also offer brokerage services. Tensile structures provide very elegant solutions for architects, engineers, designers and property owners/developers who are looking to visually enhance the aesthetics of new or existing buildings for a fraction of the cost. Tensile structures offer elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending. Most tensile structures are supported by some form of compression or bending elements, such as masts as found in the The O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) in London and compression rings or beams.
• Professional design, engineering, and fabrication
• Project Management for all facets of the job
• On time delivery, installation and completion
• Consulting and Project EvaluationMODULAR FRAMED STRUCTURES
Steel or Aluminum Trusses: Our plants efficiently design and produce durable structural arches and components. All components are either hot-dipped galvanized, anodized structural aluminum or high strength powder coating finishes. Complete fasteners and cable systems are galvanized, stainless or otherwise corrosion resistant to offer decades of maintenance free service.
Pre-engineered clear-span trusses are available in widths from from 30 feet to over 350 feet in width by any length. We can provide virtually any solution including modular structures on wheels, crane liftable structures, large scale tensile roof systems and custom designs to meet any requirement.
TSS can supply premium aluminum framed modular structures when the need for a light weight, easy to ship and install solution is required. Aluminum framed structures also feature a unique shape and design and are readily re-located. Here are a few other features of our aluminum arch structures:
• Up to 15,000 sq. ft. can be shipped on a single 45’ flat deck tractor trailer or up to 12,000 sq. ft. in a 40’ sea container
• Unique profiles enable future building expansion and accommodate the installation of thermal inner liners to further enhance the service qualities and aesthetics of the structure.
• Several widths from 30 feet to 350 feet by any length.
• Modular design for ease of length expansion
• Aluminum and steel framed structures are designed and engineered to withstand the elements and meet all International Building Codes for wind, snow and seismic.
• Natural anti-corrosive qualities of fabric structures provide years of maintenance free service.
• Green LEED compliant, energy efficient
Tensile fabric and cable mast supported structures are also known as tensile structures. This type of fabric architecture offers innovative forms of construction combined with art and imagination that provide designers and end users a variety of aesthetic free-form canopy, roof and shade sail designs. Custom-made tension fabric structures are engineered and fabricated to meet worldwide structural engineering, design, seismic and fire codes to be compliant with all building departments.
• Tensile membrane structures are most often used as large span roofs as they can economically and attractively span large distances.
• This form of construction has become more rigorously analyzed and widespread in large structures throughout the world.
• Steady technological progress has increased the popularity of fabric and membrane roofed structures. The low weight of the materials makes construction much more economical and easier than standard designs, especially when vast open spaces have to be covered.
Membrane materials
Common materials for doubly curved fabric structures are PTFE-coated fiberglass and PVC-coated polyester. These are woven materials with different strengths in different directions. The warp fibers (those fibers which are originally straight—equivalent to the starting fibers on a loom) can carry greater load than the weft or fill fibers, which are woven between the warp fibers.
Other structures make use of ETFE film, either as single layer or in cushion form which can be inflated, to provide good insulation properties or for aesthetic effect. This technology has been successfully used on many applications including The Allianz Arena in Munich and the illuminated “Water Cube” used on the Beijing Olympics. ETFE cushions can also be etched with patterns in order to let different levels of light transmit through. They are most often supported by a structural frame as they cannot derive their strength from double curvature.
Cables
Cables can be of mild steel, high strength steel or stainless steel. Structural cables are made of a series of small strands twisted or bound together to form a much larger cable. Steel cables are either spiral strand, where circular rods are twisted together and "glued" using a polymer, or locked coil strand, where individual interlocking steel strands form the cable (often with a spiral strand core).
