This document compares the properties of standard steel and aluminium scaffold tubes. It shows that aluminium tubes have a higher cross-sectional area and lower mass than steel tubes, while maintaining a similar outer diameter and wall thickness. The document also provides a table showing the relationship between the effective length, slenderness ratio, and safe axial load of the used tubes under compression.
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Properties of Standard Scaffold Tubes
This document compares the properties of standard steel and aluminium scaffold tubes. It shows that aluminium tubes have a higher cross-sectional area and lower mass than steel tubes, while maintaining a similar outer diameter and wall thickness. The document also provides a table showing the relationship between the effective length, slenderness ratio, and safe axial load of the used tubes under compression.
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PROPERTIES OF STANDARD SCAFFOLD TUBES
STEEL TUBE ALUMINIUM TUBE
Outside diameter = 48.3 (+/- 0.5) mm 48.3 (+/- 0.5) mm
Wall thickness = 4.0 (+0.47/-0.4) mm 4.47 (+0.56) mm Cross sectional area = 5.57 cm2 6.15 cm2 Mass = 4.37 kg/m 1.67 (-7.5%) kg/m Inertia = 13.8 cm4 14.9 cm4 r= 1.57 cm 1.56 cm Zp (S in TG20) = 7.87 cm3 8.61 cm3 Ze = 5.7 cm3 6.18 cm3 Allowable bending 1.00kNm 1.33 kNm moment = 26.5 kN 25.5 kN Allowable shear = 210 N/mm2 255 N/mm2 Min yield strength = 210000 N/mm2 70000 N/mm2 Modulus of elasticity = ALLOWABLE STRUT LOADS FOR USED TUBE
EFFECTIVE LENGTH SLENDERNESS RATIO SAFE AXIAL LOAD (kN)
0.6 m 38.5 57.1
0.8 m 51.3 52.6 1.0 m 64.2 47.8 1.2 m 77.0 42.8 1.4 m 89.9 37.7 1.6 m 102.7 32.9 1.8 m 115.5 28.5 2.0 m 128.4 24.7 2.2 m 141.2 21.6 2.4 m 154.0 18.9 2.6 m 166.9 16.6 2.8 m 179.7 14.7 3.0 m 192.5 13.1 3.2 m 205.4 11.7 3.4 m 218.2 10.5 3.6 m 231.1 9.5 3.8 m 243.9 8.6 4.0 m 256.7 7.9 4.2 m 269.6 7.2 4.4 m 282.4 6.6 4.6 m 295.2 6.1 4.8 m 308.1 5.6 5.0 m 320.9 5.2