Lines for treatment of low relaxation steel rope for prestressed concrete (Eurolls)

Stranding and relaxation line:

  • Production speed: up to 170 m/min.
  • Maximum productivity: 11.000 kg/h
  • Wire pay-off spools: Skip 1+6
  • Flange: 900-1.250 mm
  • Net weight 1.300-3.000 kg
  • Post forming: double wire straightener on 4 planes at an angle of 90
  • Tensioning system: by two groups of double capstans

Production:

  • Assembly: 1+6 (+12 with Tubolar in tandem)
  • Wire diameter range: 2,12 mm – 8,50 mm
  • Wire diameter tolerances: ± 0,02 mm – ± 0,05 mm
  • Rope diameter range: 6,35 mm (1/4 inch) – 25,4 mm (1 inch)
  • Tensile strength: 1620 – 2100 N/mm2
  • Welded joints: not allowed
  • Wire surface type: Smooth, Galvanized, PVC coated, Epoxy impregnated
  • Rope surface type: Normal or compacted with die (optional)
  • Packaging: Wound coils with strap (every 450)
  • internal diameter 800 mm
  • external diameter 1.300-1.500 mm
  • width 750 mm
  • net weight 5.000 kg max.

First Group pulling capstans:

  • Type: double multi-gorge with horizontal axis
  • Capstan diameter: 1.500-2.500 mm
  • Maximum continuous pull: 28.000 kg
  • Pull control: load cell on diam. 1.200 mm pulley, deflection angle 70
  • Heating furnace type: induction with power between 450 and 900 kW
  • Working temperature: 380-4.200С
  • Wire cooling: two stages, first by immersion and second by spray, with temperature control at exit

Second Group pulling capstans:

  • Synchronization system: Guiding rolls group with linear vertical scroll bar,with constant pull max 500 kg
  • Type: double, multi-gorge with horizontal axis
  • Capstan diameter: 1.500-2.500 mm
  • Maximum continuous pull: 28.000 kg
  • Strand packaging: double spool Winding-Unwinding system movable on rails. Maximum capacity 28.000 kg

Respooling and packaging:

  • Working speed: up to 400 m/min.
  • Synchronization system: Guiding rolls group with linear vertical scroll bar,with constant pull max 750 kg
  • Coil preparation: precision winding spooler (lay on lay) with automatic flange opening and coil extraction/unloading. Rope head blocking, movement and clamping spool by hydraulic drive
  • Predisposition for strapping in 8 radii
  • Coil taping and packaging: Automatic taping machine for spiral coating with paper band or plastic film

Steel strand is normally a structure composed of 2, 3 or 7 (1+6) high carbon wires but today can also have 19 wires (1+6+12). This format is more frequently used as structural reinforcement in a wide field of applications where very heavy and continuous loads are present, especially if combined with concrete for the production of pre-stressed beams. The use of such strands, with low relaxation, applies to various fields such as big industrial and civil engineering works (beams and structures in multi-storey buildings, pillars, tenso-structures, docks, river dams, road works, highway barriers and bridges, big tunnels, nuclear power plants, concrete pipes, tie rods, suspension and bracing cables for big span bridges, etc.). To efficiently perform functions of load and reinforcement, these steel strands must have LOW RELAXATION characteristics when subjected to the continuous application of high axial loads (especially if combined with concrete in pre-stressed structures).

Depending on the type of application and use, when a high resistance to environmental and weather agents is required, these strands can be clad with different materials; such as a PVC tube filled with grease, internal impregnation and external film in epoxy resin, heavy galvanized coating (hot) of the single wires composing the strand with zinc or even better zinc-aluminum. To minimize elongation under a continuous load, a tension relief treatment is necessary. It is obtained by placing the wire under a load equivalent to 40 % of its tensile while being heated to a temperature of approx. 400 C with a successive quick cooling. The production lines for LRPC STRAND offered by Eurolls, guarantees a very high efficiency/performance and excellent final product quality based not only upon an extensive technical knowledge but also predicated on our past experiences/knowledge which has resulted in vast success in this field.

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