At 07:19 AM 9/28/2005, Tod - MN wrote:
> This clip seems to demonstrate that when towers come down they don't fall
>into your neighbor's yard.
Towers that fail at home generally don't fail by having their bottom
section dynamited out, either. They fail under a lateral load.
Take a look at the photos of the failed KSON tower in San Diego and the
failed KGO tower in L.A. Both pretty much laid out in a wiggly line.
In a demolition situation, it's likely the guy wires are still attached (if
not with extra tension) to insure that it crumples in to a heap in the middle.
In a lateral load failure, you either have a guy failure, or a buckle of
the tower. In the former, it lays out straight (with some kinks,
typically, because of the acceleration profile.. it's a classic analysis
problem.. chimneys, towers, and pencil points all break unevenly for the
same reason). If it buckles,then the debris will be limited to the radius
from the guy, plus a little bit.
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