{"id":191648,"date":"2024-01-09T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rothschenk.de\/episode-39-anti-slip-mats-part-2-avoiding-application-errors\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:00:47","slug":"episode-39-anti-slip-mats-part-2-avoiding-application-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rothschenk.de\/en\/episode-39-anti-slip-mats-part-2-avoiding-application-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 39: Anti-slip mats Part 2: Avoiding application errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After describing the technical boundary conditions for anti-slip mats<\/a> based on VDI-2700 Sheet 15 in the previous blog, the following article deals with their practical application.<\/p>\n\n

The guideline does not mention this and there are also few book writers who deal with this matter from a practitioner’s perspective.<\/p>\n\n

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I’ll try to put my experience into concrete examples. In principle, it is never wrong to work with anti-slip mats (ARM)<\/strong> when securing loads. In most cases, they bring more advantages than disadvantages. <\/p>\n\n

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People often ask how thick the mats should be. The wise answer is that it depends. In purely mathematical and theoretical physical terms, the thickness of the mats is irrelevant. But it is practical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ARMs must ensure that the two surfaces, namely the loading surface and the load parts\/load carriers that touch the loading surface, are separated from each other via the mats. The technical term for this is decoupling <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Take, for example, a uniformly packed Euro pallet weighing 1,000 kg.<\/p>\n\n