Post-tensioning system
OVM specializes in designing, manufacturing, and installing reliable post-tensioning systems. Our solutions adhere to international standards and are suitable for both new and existing structures
OVM Slab PT system
OVM’s Post-Tensioning System offers significant benefits across all types of floor slabs, including industrial slabs, transfer slabs, foundation slabs, and building floors. The system enhances structural integrity, reduces material and labor costs, speeds up construction, and provides long-term durability with minimal maintenance. Whether for complex high-rise projects, heavy industrial floors, or foundations in challenging conditions, OVM’s post-tensioning system ensures an efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective solution.
How OVM’s Post-Tensioning System Enhances Structural Slab Performance
- Industrial Slabs
- High Load-Bearing Capacity: Industrial floors often bear heavy machinery and equipment loads. OVM’s post-tensioning system improves the load-carrying capacity of the slab by inducing compressive forces, which helps prevent cracks and structural failures under heavy loads.
- Durability and Longevity: The OVM system helps reduce the risk of cracking, deformation, and corrosion, ensuring the industrial slab remains durable over time, even with constant heavy loads.
- Material Efficiency: Post-tensioning allows the slab to be thinner and lighter while maintaining its strength, which reduces material usage, lowering both costs and environmental impact.
Key Benefits and Features of the OVM PT System
- Industrial Slabs
- High Load-Bearing Capacity: Industrial floors often bear heavy machinery and equipment loads. OVM’s post-tensioning system improves the load-carrying capacity of the slab by inducing compressive forces, which helps prevent cracks and structural failures under heavy loads.
- Durability and Longevity: The OVM system helps reduce the risk of cracking, deformation, and corrosion, ensuring the industrial slab remains durable over time, even with constant heavy loads.
- Material Efficiency: Post-tensioning allows the slab to be thinner and lighter while maintaining its strength, which reduces material usage, lowering both costs and environmental impact.
- Transfer Slabs
- Efficient Load Distribution: Transfer slabs in high-rise buildings and multi-story structures are responsible for transferring loads from upper floors to the foundation. OVM’s post-tensioning system ensures an even distribution of these loads across the slab, enhancing structural stability and strength.
- Flexibility in Design: Transfer slabs often require complex geometries and large open spaces without supports. OVM’s post-tensioning system provides the flexibility to create thinner, more efficient transfer slabs with large spans, minimizing the need for additional structural elements like beams or columns.
- Cost-Efficiency: OVM’s system reduces the amount of concrete and steel required, lowering the overall material costs for transfer slabs, which is critical for high-rise construction projects.
- Foundation Slabs
- Increased Stability: Foundation slabs experience variable loads and shifting soil conditions. The OVM post-tensioning system increases the slab’s stability by reducing the potential for cracking, ensuring that it can withstand these forces over time.
- Reduced Thickness, Increased Strength: The system allows for thinner foundation slabs without compromising their strength, reducing material costs and the overall weight of the building.
- Reduced Maintenance: Since post-tensioned foundation slabs are more resistant to cracking and movement due to shifting soil, the need for maintenance is significantly reduced, leading to lower long-term upkeep costs.
- Building Floors
- Thinner, Stronger Floors: OVM’s system allows for thinner building floors that are still able to carry heavy loads. This reduces both the material usage and weight of the building, which can lower the overall construction cost and improve energy efficiency.
- Reduced Cracking and Deformation: Building floors are subject to daily use, foot traffic, and various live loads. The post-tensioning system ensures that the concrete remains intact, resistant to cracking or deformation under stress, enhancing the floor’s durability.
- Design Flexibility: Whether the building is a high-rise, office complex, or residential tower, OVM’s system provides design flexibility. It allows for long spans, open spaces, and the ability to accommodate complex or unconventional designs without the need for extensive support structures like columns.
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