Tensioned Material Shade Sails Arizona: Wind Loads Debunked
Living and building in Arizona means learning to appreciate the wind. A July afternoon can sit flat and still, then a wall of dust rolls off the desert and gusts shove at anything not firmly anchored. Tensioned material shade sails handle this environment well when they are appropriately crafted and installed. When they are not, Arizona's monsoon outflows, microbursts, and winter fronts will discover the weak point, usually at a corner fitting or in the footing, and pull it