The wire rod used by Southem PC Stee! fo produce its prestressing products comes from carefuly selected quality plant, The rod is cold drawn in our special wire drawing process 10 various sizes. Siranding is done on our modern design machine to minimise torsional stress in the wire and to ada to its ulimate uniform quality. During its last production operation which is the stabiising process, the strand is healed fo biueing temperature. At this temperature the internal stress induced by wire drawing and stranding is released so that the fished strand has more uniform elastic properties and greater resistance to stress corrosion. In ‘addition, itis also tensioned fo a very high siress at elevated temperature, The resull is 0 permanent elongation of approximately 1%, and an increase in yield strength of 5% over shressrelieved strand which means that Southem PC strand has very lille remaining capacity for creep or relaxation. Souther P soe eth Pw, eRe ar scessivoma F Website: ws southtael.com == 2 Southern PC Steel [Atlante othe Hong Leone Grue A Comparison of Specification for PC Strand in yee eae s/n] ah i | Wessun ill eae = wn ie Pe)