British Steel wins over Groundforce

Groundforce, the ground engineering subsidiary of Vibroplant, is to replace its entire stock of heavy duty trench sheeting with a new product introduced by British Steel.

The L40 trench sheet has been developed by Ayrton Godins, part of British Steel Narrow Strip, and is claimed to produce significant cost savings through its high damage resistance, as well as performance benefits.

It is claimed that the damage resistance properties of the product not only affords advantages in downtime reduction on site, but also reduces the time and cost requirements of dealing with damages claims. The company also said that the sheets also drive well and are lighter and easier to handle, providing more scope for cost savings on site.

The design engineers at Ayrton Godins aimed to create a sheet with a strength to weight ratio and symmetry to give an optimum mix of strength, weight, driveability and resistance.

Several combinations of steel grade and depth of section were evaluated before the optimum design was reached. The result uses 4.5mm high tensile steel of XF450 grade with a pan depth of 85mm.

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