Tension Rod Truss Glass Facade System from Austvision

Austvision Tension Truss System

The Austvision Tension Rod Truss Glass Facade System is supplied with suspended point fixed glass with high tension stainless steel vertical rod trusses as wind bracing. The tension rod system utilises two pre-stressed catenaries that carry inward and outward wind loading. Loads are transferred from the glass through Austfix countersunk screws to compression struts.

The trusses are tensioned between the concrete floor slab and the steel roof structure. The system pretension loading and sizing of the tension rod is determined from the thermal load, dead load, creep, seismic loading and wind loading conditions specific to the supporting structure.