Aluminum

The better material choice

Aluminum’s inherent properties make it light, strong, architecturally pleasing, durable, and fully reusable and recyclable. Aluminum alloys may be extruded into infinite shapes, including complex hollow and custom designs. Aluminum’s tensile strength and structural stiffness combine with light weight, corrosion resistance and easy fabrication to make aluminum the ideal pedestrian bridge building material.

Load-bearing, structurally stiff aluminum components resist deformation caused by live loads, climate or movement. Aluminum has a high strength-to-weight ratio, and is one of the strongest construction materials available, yet is two-thirds lighter than steel. Aluminum does not degrade over time and will not rust, warp or become brittle under extreme temperature and humidity conditions.

Extrusion design

Aluminum extrusions have opened up many new possibilities for economical design and fabrication. MAADI Group takes advantage of this important new tool of engineering design without the limitations of rolled structural shapes and formed sheet sections. The great variety of shapes and sizes the aluminum extrusion process is only limited by creativity.

MAADI Group will engineer and design your extrusion to permit or facilitate joints with other members by adding or taking off flanges or ribs, or by increasing or decreasing the thickness across some parts of the section. The use of extrusions makes it possible to design a structural member of maximum efficiency within the available space, regardless of whether existing space and clearance limitations are stringent or liberal. MAADI Group will place the metal where it ins needed most, and will vary the wall thickness of sections in your aluminum extrusions within broad limits.

Our strong knowledge of engineering with aluminum gives us the ability to create thin-walled complex cross-sectional shapes in order reduce weight and cost. Our designers can add additional functions to the extrusion, like stiffeners and weld backing or any other means that will accommodate connections in compliance with relevant structural codes. This may also create another benefit of a decreased weight to raise your allowable pay loads.