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JOINTEC GH By PROFILITEC
Collection: Jointec
Type: Carriageable structural, anti seismic expansion joint
Structural joints entirely made of aluminium. JOINTEC GH is a joint suitable for truck and fork-lift high passage in civil and industrial use. Designed to bear structural movements of large sized buildings or compounds of buildings. To be installed on pre-existing surfaces, also vertically, over the spaces existing between two semi-detached parts of a building of smaller entity or between different beam bays. They can connect and close these interspaces adjusting themselves up-wards, downwards and even transversely, according to the shrinkage-settlement movements of the whole building, either cyclic or permanent. Within the bay frame created with the structural joints, a furthersurface subdivision with a suitable pattern of movement / expansion joints should be always provided for. Settlements of the structure, expansion and compression due to thermal excursion, shrinkage and structural bending are elements that create continuous movements and stresses in the flooring that often generate problems of cracking or premature detachment of the covering. It is therefore a good idea to provide an adequate grid of expansion joints during installation, choosing the type of joint and its location in consideration of the loads and stresses to which the cladding will be subjected and the different thermo-hygrometric linear expansion coefficients of the bedding and tiles and the possible interactions between different materials. The splitting of the surface and the screed underneath is in fact decisive in order to guarantee a workmanlike laying in both the adhesive and traditional methods. Always foresee a joint - In correspondence with a change in the substrate material and/or the casting joints. - In correspondence with pre-existing discontinuities in the substrate, such as structural expansion joints and different screed blocks. - At fixed elements such as columns and doors. - At changes in the laying direction. - At points where the tiled surface meets walls or containing elements. The resulting modules should be as regular as possible. As a general rule, the proportion between the two sides should not exceed 2:1.