Connecting re-bars implies advanced research to combine compromising features to high standard requirements such as:
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-Highest safety factor
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-Absolute reliability
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-Easy and adaptable on job-site manufacturing
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-Economic viability
Higher strength of the connection than the re-bar itself, can only be preserved while leaving bar’s core ∅ remaining the smallest value of the coupling assembly.
This is why PPT opted for its 2-step enlarging method while proceeding the re-bars.
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-First step:
Very low “Soft-Cold-Forge” of the bar edge
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-Second step:
Span-less Cold-Forge-Rolling for the final thread
Eliminating any material structure “over-stressing” while enlarging as well as any material fiber cutting while applying the bar thread, PTT has been able, in connection with its special designed coupler, to increase:
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-Connection quality
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-Connection strength
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-Connection cost efficiency
while diminishing:
- Axial alignment problems
- Connectivity gap interference
- Connectivity problem through thread misalignment