Wind loading a guyed tower increases both guy tension AND tower compression
forces. Furthermore both forces will increase for a given wind load as the guy
angle is steepened.
--- On Mon, 8/16/10, DF3KV <df3kv@t-online.de> wrote:
Adding guys to a self supporting tower generally raises the allowable wind
load and donĀ“t make it fail.
If the force of wind blows across guys would be transferred as downward
force through the tower to the base, then guy anchors would be a piece of
cake.
IMHO only the pre tension force and weight of the guys will add to downward
force to the base.
73
Peter
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