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STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING ®

STRUCTURAL MODELING, ANALYSI S AND DESIGN

OF STEEL LATTICED TOWERS AND SUB -STATI ONS

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The TOWER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING is a powerful and comprehensive Microsoft Windows
program for the analysis and design of steel transmission structures, such as latticed towers and
sub-stations to a range of international standards. An extensive library of panel types allow for
quick creation of the structure through parametric tools.

SELF-SUPPORTING AND GUYED TOWERS

COMPREHENSIVE AND SIMPLE STRUCTURE MODELING

The TOWER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING® includes powerful and productive features for generating
any type of latticed structure model. Engineers can now model faster than ever using the
parametric wizard generator and Panel libraries. Panels can be defined by the user through Panel
Editor, or selected from a standard panel library. Standard libraries also include materials and
sections.

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KEY FEATURES

 Available in English and French

 Metric, imperial and mixed units system are allowed and can be modified at any time
 Wizard driven parametric physical model generation for :
o Square and rectangular self-supporting towers
o Substation structures
 Extensive database of standard sections and materials (ASCE, CISC, European), and more
than 30 non-standard section shapes
 Library of standard panels types with facilities to create user-defined ones
 Graphical-based modelling commands such as linear copy, rotation copy, mirror, move,
extrusion, member subdivision and member attachment
 Rigid connections can be created to stiffen beam to column or beam to beam
connections
 Models can edited graphically or by means of spreadsheets
 V-cable element

COLUMN DEFINITION COLUMN FACE DEFINITION BEAM DEFINITION

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PANEL EDITOR DIAPHRAM

CONNECTIONS AND ANCHOR RODS

ADVANCED ANALYSIS FEATURES

The TOWER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING® includes a wide range of advanced analysis methods such
as linear, non-linear, P-Delta, buckling, natural frequencies, seismic and dynamic analysis. Wind
and ice loads can be computed automatically in accordance with many international standards.
The load generator wizard allows the user to easily create basic loads and load combinations.

KEY FEATURES
 Automatic generation of dead, ice and wind loads to the following standards:
o ASCE 74-2009
o IEC 60826-2003 (International standard)
o CAN/CSA-C22.3 No. 60826-10
o Uniform pressure
 User-defined wind and ice profiles
 Loading for joints, members including concentrated, uniform, trapezoidal and thermal loads
 Automatic calculation of drag coefficients, gust factors and topographic parameters

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o Static linear and P-Delta
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o Buckling
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 Analysis methods in TSE® include:
o Static linear and P-Delta
o Static non-linear
o Buckling
o Natural frequencies
o Seismic and dynamic
 Linear and exact non-linear cable elements (catenary cables)

Automatic handling of tension-only members

SELF-SUPPORTING TOWER GUYED TOWER

MEMBERS DESIGN

Member capacities may be checked against the international design standard ASCE 10-97.
Extensive types of checks performed by the program include slenderness, buckling, connection
strength, anchor rod strength, tensile and compression strengths. The user can optionally checks
bending, shear and torsion strengths. The TOWER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING® is a powerful solution
to do advanced design of tower and sub-station structures.

KEY FEATURES
 Available design provisions include:
o ASCE 10-97
 Members are checked against their ultimate strength in accordance with the selected
code, Design check include:
o Slenderness ratios
o Tension
o Compression
o Connections (shear, bearing, block shear)
o Anchor rods

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o Natural frequencies
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 Anchor rod can be design checked for ASCE 10-97 and CAN/CSA S16-09 standards.
 Calculation of the equivalent loads on footings
 Can optionally check members according to LRFD-99 for :
o Bending
o Tension-bending
o Compression-bending
o Shear
o Torsion
o Warping

SUB-STATION STRUCTURE SELF-SUPPORTING TOWER

POWERFUL RESULTS AND DIAGRAMS

The TOWER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING® provides you with rich inquiry tools to review the results on
screen and an exhaustive set of results and diagrams. It displays compression curves, deflection,
axial forces, torsion, bending moments and stress diagrams. Also, it displays results numerically by
means of tables. Customizable and easy to create reports generation is provided in several
formats.

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