Through the years, with the use of dedicated designed solutions, Tensacciai has been capable of realizing important works of rehabilitation.
This need has become serious since many important structures, after years of too low level of regular maintenance or inadequate design or a considerable lifetime, have shown clear need of rehabilitation.
The use of post-tensioning, especially the external one, has been suitably adapted to introduce into the structures supplementary forces, necessary to recreate the acceptable conditions of displacements and stresses.
This application has been mainly adopted in all cases where the main need of rehabilitation was regarding the restoring of forces and displacements.
Other technical solutions have been utilised in all those cases where the primal need has been the one of recreating adequate levels of corrosion protection, as the outside protection of stay cables.
In many important cases, rehabilitation lead to complete substitution of important structural elements as stay cables.
Bridges have been completely renewed with the substitution of all stay cables, comprising the entire connection over the pylon.
Old systems made of single wires, suffering from serious phenomena of corrosion, have been removed, combining their disassembly with the progressive erection of new modern Tensacciai stay cables.
Rehabilitation processes are different and never the same: the use of post-tensioning, in the wider sense of it, leads to excellent results, introducing safety and protection into older and important existing structures.