Our aluminum stringers are made with extruded aluminum (steel stringers are galvanized steel profile) and designed to fit 600 mm systems. The stringers are used to provide lateral support only and are not intended to improve the vertical load carrying capacity of the panels. The stringers do not establish the system spacing as the holes in the stringer tops are slightly slotted, allowing the stringers to conform to the size of the panels. When used in cleanrooms, the stringers can feature an e-coat, epoxy powder coat or bare finish (steel stringers excluded). Both conductive and non-conductive coatings are available.
Additional strengthening of the substructure, particularly along the perimeter lines, in the form of additional bars or threaded rods which are clamped onto the base at an angle and mechanically fastened to the slab by anchor bolts to inhibit movement when the floor has to cope with high horizontal loads.
This bracing of the floor system is installed for heavily loaded areas such as tool move- in paths, heavy machine areas and seismic activity regions.
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