Page 8 of catalogue Bearing Supports in Buildings and Structures of Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG

Stadiums

Can architects be artists?

The State Hockey Centre in Sydney, the Stade de France in Paris or the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle (Westphalia) ... All over the world, stadiums are appealing planning projects for architects and supporting framework planners. Lightweight roofs are important for these structures. And the optimum design also includes ELGES maintenance-free sphe-rical plain bearings. Roofs are often spanned with ropes whose coupling points must contain moment-free bearing supports on both sides. But aesthetics is only one aspect – the climate protection provided by the roof is much more important. After all, neither the athletes nor the Fans like getting wet in the rain. The enormous forces that act on the bearing positions when the roof is opened and closed are no problem for our Elgoglide®-coated spherical plain bearings. They can support contact pressures up to 300 N/mm2 under dynamic and up to 500 N/mm2 under static loading conditions.
The State Hockey Centre in Sydney – all of the rope coupling points at the edge of the roof and on the masts have supports incorporating Elgoglide® spherical plain bearings

Sophisticated solutions that support extremely high loads: Rope coupling points in the roof design

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