AML500 Aluminium Modular Lattice Module - 1.0m to 3.0m

APAC's AML500 is a heavy-duty modular aluminium lattice system for building towers, gantries, bridges and frames. Anyone who has worked with aluminium box truss on stages and events will know the idea, but AML500 is made for industrial sites and permanent installations: heavier members and a tight, taper-bolted joint give a much stiffer structure that goes higher and carries more. Modules and nodes join on a 500 mm grid, so a structure can be built in any direction and to almost any size.

Each module is a 500 mm square lattice of 76.2 x 6.35 mm SHS chords, braced with 32 x 3 mm CHS rings and 50 x 4 mm CHS Warren diagonals, all 6061-T6 aluminium, with its bays on the 500 mm grid. Modules come in 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 m lengths, so with the 500 mm nodes any span or height in 500 mm steps is built exactly, and the shorter modules are an easy two-person lift.

The joint is genderless: either end of any module meets any other module, any node face or a base plate, turned any way round. A machined spigot slides into the chords, and stainless taper bolts, seated in holes taper-reamed through chord and spigot, pull the joint tight without free play. Module-to-module joints use the AP-AML500-JK-MM joint kit; module-to-node joints use the AP-AML500-JK-MN. AML500 base plates fix the structure to its footing.

AML500 structures are engineered for each project.