Tensile Roof Details

These type of structure is commonly found in sports facilities warehousing and storage buildings and exhibition venues.

Tensile roof details.

A tensile membrane structure is most often used as a roof as they ca. Aluminum copper copper zinc cast iron zinc plated steel galvanized steel and stainless steel. Tensile structure systems is a boutique firm in the tensile membrane structure industry. A tensile membrane structure is most often used as a roof as they can economically and attractively span large distances.

A tensile structure is a structure elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending. Their main characteristics are the way in which they work under. Tensile structures are the most common type of thin shell structures. Tensile structure is the term usually used to refer to the construction of roofs using a membrane held in place on steel cables.

Designs have to be such that in the event of the failure of one or more membrane fields within a roof the whole system does not collapse and heavy ele ments such as masts are arrested by a fail safe system. A tensile structure is a construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending. We specialize in the design build of custom tensile structures fabric facades tensile roof systems and shade sails. Most tensile structures are supported by some form of compression or bending elements such as masts compression rings or beams.

The term tensile should not be confused with tensegrity which is a structural form with both tension and compression elements. We have over 30 years experience in the design engineering and manufacturing of tension fabric tensile membrane structures.