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MS Tower Capabilities
MS Tower Capabilities
MS Tower Capabilities
and management of steel towers, masts and poles used in the communications, tele
com, broadcasting and power transmission industries.
The program is flexible and is organized so that it can be integrated into a bus
iness's management system while being the backbone of the Structural Engineers d
epartment.
Features in the program enable the management side of the program to be web enab
led so that aerials on structures and their properties may be examined on the we
b while structural and contract information is retained on the companies private
network.
MS Tower contains options for defining the geometry, loading, analysis, graphica
l viewing of input, verifying input, graphical viewing of results, and member ch
ecking.
Codes of PracticesThe set of codes for the design and checking to the European C
odes 1 and 3 have not yet been completed with the the British National Annex sti
ll pending.
When published we will be able to progress to completing our work to these stand
ards and verification of calculations.
Loading may be computed in accordance with:
BS 8100:Part 1, 1986, (Amd 1, 2005)
BS 8100:Part 4, 1995, (Amd 1, 2003)
BS 6399:Part 2, 1997
CP3 Chapter 5
ILE TR7, 2000
EIA/TIA-222-G, 2005/7 + Addendum 2
EIA/TIA-222-F, 1996
ASCE 7-02
AS 3995, 1994
Malaysian Electricity Supply Regulations, 1990
IS:875 (Indian Standard)
BNBC (Bangladesh National Building Code)
Earth Quake (Response spectrum Analysis)
Earth Quake (Lateral Acceleration)
Earth Quake (Equivalent lateral force method of EIA 222-G)
Member and bolt capacities may be checked against the requirements of:
BS 8100:Part 3, 1999, (Cor' 1, 2001)
EIA/TIA-222-G, 2005/7 + Addendum 2
EIA/TIA-222-F ,1996
ASCE 10-97
ASCE 10-90
ASCE Manual, 72
BS 5649 part 7
ILE TR7, 2000
BS5950 (Poles only)
BS 449 (No bolt checking)
AS 3995, 1994
IS:802 (Indian Standard)
Towers, which may be of three, four or multi sided, are assembled by combining a
series of standard face, plan, hip and cross-arm panels. The tower profile is d
efined by giving the height of individual panels and the width at "bend" points.
All other widths are obtained by interpolation. The range of standard panels is
being regularly increased with over 200 different panel types available at pres
ent. Standard panels are parameterised so that the user may readily modify the c
onfiguration.
and condition or a larger detailed report suitable for checking the computation
s for each member. The results of the member check may be shown as a graphical d
isplay with the colour in which a member is displayed depending on its maximum l
oad/capacity ratio.
Foundation reactions and ancillary rotations may also be reported for any probab
ility.