Solplates
The SOLPLATES role is very important within a system of rail installation for overhead travelling cranes, harbour cranes or gantries, indeed these solplates which are found in a continuous or individual installation along the track, constitue the interface between the guide rail, its pad guide and the cement grout, epoxy resin or concrete of the second phase.
They allow a better distribution of the stress between the foot of the rails and the support of the track, stress induced by the vertical loads, horizontal longitudinal and horizontal transversal loads applied to the system across the wheels.
The art of installing on a concrete support supposes a designed as follows system :
- First phase concrete
- Second phase concrete with reservations for the anchor bolts
- High compression modulus of cement grout or epoxy resin
- Anchors bolts screws threads, (cylinder or cone-shaped)
- Solplates in steel grades S235 or S355 fixed continuously or individually (depending on the loads applied to the system)
- FLAT PADS, continuous (in lengths of 12 lm) or individual (according to the width of the individual solplate)
- Welded or bolted clips which allow the rails to be fixed on the solplate.