Advantages of Tensile Membrane Structures

These are thin shell structures and attractively cover large distances carrying only tension, but no compression. The material used for roofing membrane structures are generally (single-layered or double layered) PTFE coated fibre glass, PVC coated Polyester and ETFE Foil. Supportive structural cables used in tensile membrane structure are a series of strands twisted or bound together, leading to a larger cable. Tensile structures are commonly sub-divided in boundary tensioned membranes, pneumatic structures and pre-stressed cable nets and beams.

Advantages of Tensile Membrane Structures –

• Flexible Design Aesthetics – Tensile Membrane structures provide virtually designs of distinctive elegant forms that can be realized because of the unique flexible characteristics.
• Excellent Durability – The durability and longevity of these structures have been proven and built in climates ranging from the frigid arctic to the scorching desert heat.
• Lightweight Nature – The lightweight nature of membrane structures is an efficient solution that requires minimal structural steel to support the roof compared to conventional building materials, enabling long spans of column-free space.
• Low Maintenance – Tensile Membrane structure can be can be coated which makes their maintenance easier as compared to an equivalent-sized conventional building.
• Energy Efficient – Most tensile structures have high sun reflectivity and low absorption of sunlight, thus resulting in less energy used within a building and ultimately reducing energy costs.
• Outstanding Translucency – In daylight, fabric membrane translucency offers diffused, naturally lit spaces reducing the interior lightning costs while at night, artificial lightning creates an ambient exterior luminescence.
• Recyclable material – The tensile membrane structures are made with fabrics which are recyclable. Hence these tensile structures feature minimal carbon footprint.

About Hindustan Alcox

Tensile Membrane structures, which require a prior understanding of shape and form, the behaviour of the materials used and the forces acting on it. As a leading Tensile Membrane Structure producer, Hindustan Alcox Limited specializes in creating customized membrane structures with sophisticated designed practices.

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