PERFORMANC EVALUATION OF TELECOMUNICATION TOWER

USING PUSHOVER ANALYSIS

Nada Nor Azila 1, Atika Ulfah Jamal 2, Rr Nur Ratri Purnama Dewi 3
Civil Engineering Department, FCEP, Islamic University of Indonesia
Email: nadyanor.azila@yahoo.co.id

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, telecomunications becomes an important part in human life. One of the important telecommunication
infrastructure is tower. The tower functions as a place for signal transmitter antenna to serves the customers around
the tower. As we know, Indonesia is one of the country that is prone to earthquakes. According to SNI 2010, the
telecommunication tower includes as the vital building. Therefore, it necessary to evaluate the performance of the
tower structure when the earthquake occurred. As a vital building, telecommunication tower of course not allowed
to be damaged when disaster happened. This evaluation efforts also include in the the mitigation process because it
is done in order to identify the risks that can arise in the event of a disaster, so the telecommunications tower
building in Indonesia can be planned well and can serve the needs of the community well though the disaster
occurred.
The telecommunications tower that will be analyzed is a tower with a height of 42 m. The analysis of performance
evaluation of the telecommunication tower structure using pushover analysis with a help of software SAP2000. The
code that used in this analysis is FEMA 356 and government regulations regarding steel buildings.
This reasearch is aimed to determine the location of the plastic hinge on the tower structure so it can be known the
location of the damage if affected from the earthquake loads. The result will be shown performance level of the
tower structure of the earthquake occurred.
Keywords: Performance evaluation, performance level, telecomunication tower, pushover analysis