
Macalloy Tension Bars
Macalloy's lighter carbon and stainless bars are used in lightweight canopies, facades and suspended structures. The high strength bars provide support for bridge decks, in bolstering bridges the good fatigue properties of the bar are an important design feature in road, tram and pedestrian bridges alike.
Benefits
- Fatigue resistant rolled thread
- Available in 460N/mm2, 520N/mm2 and now a 550N/mm2 strength for both carbon and stainless
- All products compliant with ETA21/0053 and CE compliant
- Bars and fittings can be supplied primed or painted and/or hot dipped galvanised to BS1461:2009
- Bespoke fittings can be designed to suit customer applications
- Technical literature is available with design calculations and loadings to EC3
- Macalloy engineers are always available to help
Min. Yield Load
1 kN
Design Resistance to EC3 NR,d
1 kN






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Assembly and installation
To ensure full strength of threaded joints a minimum of 1 x thread diameter should be engaged in fork/turnbuckle joints.
Where large loads need to be induced in a tension bar the Macalloy TechnoTensioner can be used. See page 7 for more information.
Spanner flats available on request on bars and turnbuckles, please specify at time of order.
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Fork adjustment and set up points
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Turnbuckle adjustment and set up points
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Fork and Lock Cover Sealing
Fork and Lockcover sealing method statements are availble on request. If no lock cover is used, contact Macalloy for sealing methods.

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Fork / Gusset Plate Misalignment

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Fork / Gusset Plate Misalignment

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TechnoTensioner
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Disc connection
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Fork
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Spade
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Architectural Pin
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Hex Nuts Units
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Turnbuckle
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Coupler
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Fork & Coupler Lock Covers
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Universal Lock Covers
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