Scaffold Transom With Angled Outriggers For Load Capacity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional modular scaffolds face limitations in increasing load-bearing capacity under high loads due to limited connection points for additional bracing, necessitating more robust systems with increased effort and cost.
Innovation Solution
A scaffold beam with four connection points, including two standard interfaces and two angled outriggers with movable locking mechanisms, allowing for enhanced force and moment transmission without additional elements, compatible with existing scaffold systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If additional standard components are installed as bracing to compensate for higher bending loads, then load-bearing capacity is improved, but the number of connection points on vertically oriented scaffold elements becomes limited
Solution Approach 1:
The scaffold beam is segmented into multiple functional components: a beam support with connection interfaces and multiple outriggers with closures. This segmentation allows the beam to create multiple connection points (at least four) with vertically oriented scaffold elements, distributing the load and increasing load-bearing capacity without requiring additional standard components
Solution Approach 2:
The outriggers extend from the beam support in directions angled between 1° and 89° to the longitudinal axis, utilizing three-dimensional spatial arrangement to create multiple connection points in different directions. This dimensional approach allows the scaffold beam to connect to vertically oriented elements at multiple locations, effectively increasing load-bearing capacity while managing connection point complexity
2Strength
If a more robust scaffold system is used to achieve increased load-bearing capacity, then strength is improved, but effort and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The scaffold beam is designed as a universal component that can be integrated into existing modular scaffold systems. The connection interfaces are configured to connect with both vertically oriented scaffold elements and horizontally oriented scaffold elements, allowing a single component type to serve multiple functions and increase load-bearing capacity without requiring a completely different robust scaffold system
Solution Approach 2:
The closures feature movable connecting elements that can be adjusted and positioned to create optimal connection configurations. This dynamic adjustability allows the scaffold beam to adapt to different loading conditions and scaffold arrangements, achieving increased load-bearing capacity while maintaining ease of assembly and compatibility with existing systems
3Ease of operation
If conventional modular scaffolds are used, then ease of assembly is maintained, but load-bearing capacity under high loads is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The scaffold beam is pre-configured with multiple outriggers and connection interfaces in specific spatial arrangements. This preliminary configuration allows workers to simply connect the beam to vertically oriented scaffold elements at the predetermined connection points, maintaining ease of assembly while the pre-engineered structure provides enhanced load-bearing capacity under high loads
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AI summary
The invention relates to a scaffold transom, in particular for horizontally oriented installation in a scaffold section, said scaffold transom comprising: at least one transom support which is rod-shaped and extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis, the transom support having two opposing ends in the direction of the longitudinal axis and a connection interface being located at each of these two ends, which connection interface is provided for connection to a scaffold element; at least two brackets which each extend along a bracket axis, the brackets each having two opposing ends in the direction of their bracket axis, one of said ends of each bracket being connected to the transom support; and at least two closures, one of which is located at the end of a bracket opposite the connection of said bracket to the transom support. The invention also relates to a scaffold section comprising a scaffold transom, and to a method for constructing such a scaffold section.