Tall guyed mast
Tall guyed mast
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Hi,
Does anyone know of any reference material for design of tall (over 300m) guyed masts?
Thanks in advance!
Does anyone know of any reference material for design of tall (over 300m) guyed masts?
Thanks in advance!






RE: Tall guyed mast
Analyzing something like that by hand would take forever.
However - I would also make some hand calcs to verify ANY software output. If reactions agree and a couple of member forces check out - then it is probably right.
RE: Tall guyed mast
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF GUYED TOWERS
Sergio Preidikman
Julio C. Massa
Bruno A. Roccia
Structural Analysis of Guyed Steel Telecommunication Towers for Radio Antennas
Marcel Isandro R. de Oliveira
Pedro Colmar G. da S. Vellasco
Sebastião Arthur L. de Andrade
Luciano R. O. de Lima
A positive reference is
Structural Engineering Handbook 4th ed.
Gaylord, Gaylord, Stallmeyer
McGraw Hill ed. NY, 1997
Section 30
Transmission and Communication Structures
Peyrot, Brinker
The program usually referred is RISA Tower, from RISA Technologies.
Referred Codes use to be
ANSI/TIA/EIA-222-F June 1996
Structural Standards for Steel Antenna Towers and Antenna supporting Structures
ANSI/TIA-222-G January 2006
Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and Antennas
RE: Tall guyed mast
RE: Tall guyed mast
Actually, the RISATower program is now tnxTower from Tower Numerics.
http://www.towernx.com/
I would think the TIA G standard would be the best reference for the design of guyed monopoles. Certainly this is specific to communication towers. But, I'm not aware of other standards (for transmission lines or such) that go into quite as much detail as TIA.
RE: Tall guyed mast
RE: Tall guyed mast
A big thumbs up to boo1 for the example.
@Joshplum - we're doing tall self-supporting chimneys up to 275m, but those are in concrete.
RE: Tall guyed mast
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