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AssigneeVSL International AG
InventorKurt Luthi
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For a stressing anchorage for a tension element running inside an encasing tube, a bearing plate with an annular opening is set up on an outer wall of a structural part. In an area of the opening turned away from the structural part there is a cone opening outward. A trumpet of plastic is bonded to the encasing tube, likewise of plastic, at its end situated in the structural part. The outer end of the trumpet is more or less flush with the face of the bearing plate turned away from the structural part. A transition piece projects into the trumpet with a projection leading in whose surface area is shaped frustoconically. Owing to the truncated cone, the outer end of the trumpet is pressed against the cone of the bearing plate, and is held firmly in an annular gap between the said truncated cone and the said cone after the anchor head is placed on the transition piece and the tensioning strands of the individual tension elements are pre-stressed and are held with the wedges. Since, in producing the stressing anchorage, first the inner end of the trumpet is bonded to the encasing tube and the outer end of the trumpet projects out of the structural part, this end being shortened to the necessary length only when the stressing anchorage has been fixed in position, the longitudinal tolerances in a transitional zone between the structural part and the prestressing tendons, or, respectively, between the end of the encasing tube and the outer wall of the structural part can be easily compensated. Shown in a variant embodiment is a correspondingly constructed electrically insulated stressing anchorage.
Stressing anchorage for at least one tension element running inside an encasing tube having first and second ends, with a bearing plate supported against a part of a building structure, said bearing plate having a continuous opening, with a trumpet having an inner and an outer end, the inner end essentially joining said first end of the encasing tube and being connected to it and the outer end extending at least into said continuous opening of said bearing plate, with an anchor head having at least one continuous bore, wherein said at least one tension element is anchored with a wedge in said at least one continuous bore of said anchor head, said anchor head being supported against the bearing plate through an annular transition piece, with at least one area of said continuous opening of said bearing plate turned toward the anchor head having a cone opening toward the anchor head, and the outer end of the trumpet projecting into said at least area of said continuous opening, wherein said transition piece comprises a projection leading into said continuous opening, with the surface area of said projection forming a truncated cone, and the surface area of said truncated cone running essentially parallel to the surface area of said cone opening, and wherein said outer end area of said trumpet is pressed upon said cone opening of said bearing plate by means of the truncated cone of the projection, said outer end being held in an annular gap between said truncated cone and said cone opening.
Method of fabricating a stressing anchorage for at least one tension element comprising the steps of running said at least one tension element inside an encasing tube having first and second ends, providing a bearing plate having a continuous opening, with the bearing plate supported against a structural part, and having a trumpet with an inner and an outer end, wherein the inner end of the trumpet is bonded to said first end of the encasing tube, and the outer end of said trumpet projecting out of the structural part, wherein one end of said at least one tension element is pulled into the encasing tube and into the trumpet to project out of the outer end of the trumpet, wherein the bearing plate is placed on the structural part with a face of said bearing plate turned away from said structural part, with said outer end of the trumpet penetrating said continuous opening, wherein the projecting outer end of the trumpet is shortened so that it is essentially flush with said face of the bearing plate turned away from the structural part, and providing a transition piece having a frustoconical projection, which is placed along with an anchor head on the bearing plate, with said continuous opening of the bearing plate having a cone corresponding to the frustoconical projection, wherein said at least one tension element is positioned through a continuous bore in said anchor head and anchored therewith, and wherein stressing of the tension element is performed through the pressing of said projection of the transition piece into the cone of said continuous opening of the bearing plate such that the outer end of the trumpet is bent up and is held in an annular gap between said frustoconical projection and the said cone of said bearing plate.
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