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TOWER- Analysis and Design of Steel Latticed Towers Used in Transmission and Communication Facilities

TOWER Version 5 Improvements Over Version 4

• Tools to assist with calculating ASCE wind loads
• Ability to automatically increase wind with height for transmission and communications towers
• Addition of the CENELEC code (draft of the common European code)
• Improvements made to the ECCS code implementation
• Connection checking
• Automated optimum angle member size selection and bolt quantity determination
• Automated fixing of over utilized members
• Tool for interactive angle member sizing and bolt quantity determination
• Automated mast generation (quickly builds model for towers that have regular repeating sections) via section copy/paste
• Graphs of leg compression, twist and out of plumb as per EIA/TIA 222
• More flexible modeling (allows for structures that couldn't be modeled in earlier programs)
  • Chaining of elements (2 part insulator on end of swing bracket...)
  • Improved modeling of swing brackets, 2-part and braced post insulators
  • User specified strength factors for each type of element
  • Application of equipment loads from a library of available loads
  • Capability to check basic foundation capacities (including guy anchor capacity)
  • Determination of the effects of support displacement
  • Capability to supply a foundation stiffness to model support settlement
• Improved interface
  • Undo for all editing operations
  • Option to draw structure as line drawing, wire frame or fully rendered representation
  • Supports DXF and bitmap attachments (photos of actual structures, CAD drawings, company logos, drawing borders)
  • Text in graphics views automatically positioned to avoid collisions with other text
  • Can extract geometry and connectivity information from a DXF CAD drawing
  • Click to edit for all elements (simply click on the member you want to edit in the graphics)
  • Results available in both text and spreadsheet form
  • Customizable reports
  • Improved warning and error reporting
  • On-line/electronic user's manual linked in to provide context sensitive help
• Implements automatic relative path mapping so models and their databases can be moved easily
• Interaction diagrams (graphs of allowable weight span vs. allowable wind span)
• Capability to handle larger models (up to 9000 elements)
• Faster analysis (20%-400% faster) that can be canceled
• Multiprocessor non-linear analysis (N processors results in an N times speed up)