Blue Wave Stainless Steel Wire Design Systems products are suitable for a variety of tensile architecture structures, including fabric structures, bracing and suspension bridges.

Blue Wave delivers the highest standard of product quality, with the ability to work with your engineers to custom design unique tensile structures.

Blue Wave Stainless Steel Wire applications include:

  • Suspension bridges and shade
  • Braces and trusses
  • Fabric architecture and weather proof structures
  • Ultra strong stainless steel wire

Tensile structures are growing in popularity for:

  • Airports
  • Sporting facilities
  • Exhibition halls
  • Bridging

Blue Wave is also now a ISO9001 Certified Company, a worldwide recognition of quality management systems standards.

Swageless terminals

If the exact length of the final wire is unknown a good solution is only to swage one end and screw a swageless terminal onto the

wire for final attachment on site at the other end.

Small terminals

Alternatively, the WDS range of Small fittings can be crimped onto the wires using a hand tool, however, due to reduced amount

of material in the small fittings, only a 50% break load of the wire can be obtained by this method.

Swage dimensions chart

Wire Thread Inside diameter Outside Diameter Depth After Swaging
mm Metr.     (+/- 0,2)         (+/- 0,10) (+/- 1,5) mm
2,0 M5 2,2 5,5 32 4,7 – 4,82
2,5 M5 2,8 5,5 32 4,7 – 4,82
3,0 M6 3,5 6,35 38 5,44 – 5,56
4,0 M8 4,4 7,5 45 6,23 – 6,35
5,0 M10 5,3 9,0 51 7,83 – 7,95
6,0 M12 6,5 12,58 64 10,95 – 11,12
7,0 M14 7,5 14,2 70 12,5 – 12,7
8,0 M16 8,4 16,0 83 14,07 – 14,3
10,0 M20 10,5 17,8 89 15,7 – 15,9
12,0 M20 12,5 20,0 105 17,6 – 17,8
14,0 M22 14,8 25,0 140 22,0 – 22,23
16,0 M24 17,0 28,0 160 25,15 – 25,40
19,0 M27 20,0 34,5 200 31,44 – 31,75
22,0 M30 23,5 40,5 230 36,2 – 36,50
26,0 M36 27,5 46,0 280 40,97 – 41,28
28,0 M42 30,0 50,0 300 44,00 – 44,50
32,0 M48 33,5 58,0 340 51,00 – 51,50
36,0 M52 38,0 65,0 380 57,00 – 57,80

Blue Wave hardware can be purchased in Australia & New Zealand from distributor Miami Stainless.

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