IEC has various experiences in desiging special structural bearings when unusual dimensions, uplife force or irregular tapering, etc, are required by individual project.
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Specially designed bearings
There are always unique needs which either cater for the specific environmental situations such as topography or natural influences, or the philosophy of just “being something different”. So, there is a great variety of specially designed bearings which IEC’s has been, and will be, designing and producing for special project demands.
Following images reveal part of IEC's such designs&manufacturing supplied for unique projects.
uniquely-designed bearing to cater for the needs to rotate bridge beam to needed angle
IEC supplied 8 pcs of swivel bearing in Gohai project China
(Body-swivel bearing, a special bearing to cater for the swivel of the bridge beam where the situation required the beam comes in a different position than its final position.)
Cater for sloped situation while the height of bearing can be automatically adjusted to structure
With uplift resistance capability
spherical bearings combined with LUD devices for seismic prevention
spherica bearings with special-shape steel dampers
(IEC supplied 16 sets of such bearings for Niutianyang expressway, Guangdong)