Tie Rod - Subtypes and Examples of Applications

Subtypes and Examples of Applications

• In airplane structures, tie rods are sometimes used in the fuselage or wings.
• Tie rods are often used in steel structures, such as bridges, industrial buildings, tanks, towers, and cranes.
• Sometimes tie rods are retrofitted to bowing or subsiding masonry walls (brick, block, stone, etc.) to keep them from succumbing to lateral forces.
• The rebar used in reinforced concrete is not referred to as a "tie rod", but it essentially performs some of the same tension-force-counteracting purposes that tie rods perform.
• In automobiles, the tie rods are part of the steering mechanism. They differ from the archetypical tie rod by both pushing and pulling (operating in both tension and compression). In the UK, these items are generally referred to as track rods.
• In steam locomotives, a tie rod is a rod that connects several driving wheels to transmit the power from the connecting rod.
• Tie rods known as sag rods are sometimes used in connection with purlins to take the component of the loads which is parallel to the roof.
• The spokes of bicycle wheels are tie rods.