Modular Scaffold Floor Structure for Level Tent Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional clear span tent and frame structures face challenges such as lack of weather sealing, inability to handle unlevel ground, and insufficient structural strength, leading to safety concerns and questionable load capacity when assembled on custom platforms.
Innovation Solution
A modular flooring system with a scaffold understructure that transfers loads from the tent and platform to scaffold legs, using universal beams, upright connectors, and platforms designed to accommodate various tent sizes and unlevel ground conditions, ensuring proper load distribution and water runoff.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If clear span tents are assembled on unlevel ground using conventional base plates, then the tent structure cannot be properly supported, but creating a custom platform increases device complexity and reduces reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the platform into modular scaffold legs that can be independently adjusted to different heights, allowing each leg to compensate for ground unevenness separately rather than requiring a complex custom-built platform
Solution Approach 2:
The scaffold leg system serves multiple functions: it provides structural support, enables height adjustment for unlevel ground, and creates a level surface for base plates, replacing the need for separate custom platform construction
2Strength
If conventional platforms are used to level the ground, then the platform can support the tent, but the load capacity and safety are questionable
Solution Approach 1:
The scaffold legs are pre-engineered with known load capacities and structural specifications before deployment, allowing for predictable and reliable load bearing performance rather than ad-hoc platform construction with uncertain strength characteristics
3Stability of the object's composition
If base plates are secured to a leveled surface, then the tent structure is stable, but this requires creating a platform which increases complexity and reduces ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The scaffold legs incorporate adjustable mechanisms that allow dynamic height modification during setup, enabling the system to adapt to unlevel ground conditions without requiring complex pre-construction platform work
Data Source
AI summary
A scaffold apparatus may have a saddle with a platform and two spaced apart parallel sides extending above the platform. The apparatus may also have a beam having a beam flange attached to an end portion of the beam. The apparatus may also have an upright connector with a bottom portion, where bottom portion may have an insert, and a plate attached to the bottom portion.