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    Steel Grillage Raft Foundation

    Hi I have beed tasked with designing grillage foundations for a series of slim towers to be used for rapid deployment telecom sites. Due to the base width of the towers, it is impossible to design isolated footings for each leg so I have to use a raft foundation. Unfortunately while there's alot...
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    Interesting Lattice Tower Leg Connection

    Hi We had a number of towers supplied to us about two years ago with the leg connection shown in the attachment at the point where the lower tapered part joins the non tapered part of the tower. As can be seen all the forces are transferred from the upper part to the lower part through the leg...
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    Design of connected foundations for lattice towers

    Hi I recently received a request to perform a modification design for a telecommunication tower foundation. It's a four leg, 80m tower and the base reactions from the tower analysis are: 1914.61 kN Max compression 1665.27 kN Max uplift 27821.77 kNm over turning moment 756.12 kN Base shear 574.36...

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