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Stormchild truly does stand up to the wrath of nature
On the evening of Tuesday 3, July 2007, the skies over London darkened and then all hell broke loose. Ice fell from the sky, windows exploded, sky lofts shattered, roofs collapsed and gutters were torn from buildings. Amidst the storm LiquidCanvas stretch tents set up in Parsons Green, London, all of a sudden took on more than 1.5 tons of ice. These are the incredible tents made by Tentra South Africa called its StormChild range.
The StormChild fabric was recently tested in the UK by well-known testing lab, BodyCote. The tests were part of the full structural appraisal of these unique free style tents done by TALL consulting structural engineers of London.
Results showed that StormChild fabric has an average tensile strength (breaking strength) of 13.8 mpa. This means the fabric has a tensile strength, without any distortion or elongation, of up to 8 tons per m² and if exposed to higher tensile forces will in fact hold up to a breaking strain of over 45 tons per m² with distortion and elongation of fibres.
When the StormChild fabric is combined with pole systems, lines, pegging systems and installation expertise, the tents are rated completely safe in winds of up to 97km/h. Or put another way, they can withstand a level 7 rated storm on the beaufort scale which equals winds going at 27m per second. In fact the tents can withstand even stronger wind forces, but are yet to be rated in such conditions.
That would then clearly explain how the LiquidCanvas tents simply sprang back into shape once the ice from the storm was removed. LiquidCanvas is the UK and European sister brand operation to designer entertaining company, Loudfire, based in South Africa.
