As modular tensile structures are not designed to withstand harsh conditions they have a moderate lifespan of 8 15 years.
Hypar tensile fabric roof.
Rather than using dimensional structural material such as lumber or metal to create a structural skeleton and then sheathing that skeleton with a waterproof covering steel sheets shingles etc a hypar roof uses very little material to create the frame and relies instead upon stretching a fabric over the frame to form a hyper parabola an arch in two perpendicular directions and coating that fabric with a thin 3 8 inch layer of latex modified cement.
Fabritec structures designs engineers fabricates and installs lightweight structures that range vastly in scope and service from massive stadiums and amphitheaters to building entryways and covered walkways we develop our unique structures utilizing an assortment of highly engineered materials including etfe film ptfe and pvc membranes precision welded carbon steel structures specially.
If you need cover for your school college hospital visitor attraction workplace or home just choose from our range of more than 50 ready to install pre designed and engineered tensile fabric structures and garden shade sails.
With tensile fabric structures everything is designed by us and hand made locally by our trusted suppliers.
Tensile structure systems is a boutique firm in the tensile membrane structure industry.
The hypar thin shell concrete roof is a roofing system developed by george nez and albert knott of tsc global who trained groups in several developing countries in how to construct them.
The most common modular shapes include hypar cones pagoda barrel vault pole tents double vault.
We specialize in the design build of custom tensile structures fabric facades tensile roof systems and shade sails.
The sail shade is an attractive and fashionable canopy shape which is technically known as a hypar.
George nez and albert knott.
We have over 30 years experience in the design engineering and manufacturing of tension fabric tensile membrane structures.
Utilising the hyperbolic paraboloid orion hypar fabric canopies are probably the simplest of all tensile structures with a distinctive shape created when the diagonally opposite corners of a sail are raised.
A wide range of fabric tensile stiffnesses have been modelled from 100 kn m through more typical values of 400 2000 kn m to a maximum of 5000 kn m.
For hypars with a high level of fabric curvature the sensitivity of the maximum fabric deflection to changes in elastic modulus are very low right hand side of fig.
Easy to install and dismantle and hence can cover roof fabric structure a vast area in a short span of time.
Or if you have something special in mind just tell us.
Hypar short for hyperbolic paraboloid is one of the classic tensile fabric forms with the fabric attached at two high points and two low points to create a three dimensional flying shape.
This twist produces the hypar form while opposing tension forces keep the canopy membrane tight across the span.
