[TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters
Chuck Counselman
ccc at space.mit.edu
Thu Apr 17 01:02:11 EDT 2003
It's intuitively obvious (as my engineering professors used to say)
that adding very-slightly _slack_ guys to a self-supporting tower can
do no harm, and that when the wind blows they will help.
They will help because they will take up shear while placing much
less vertical load on the tower legs than they would have without the
guys. Why? Because a guy has a much, much greater "lever arm."
-Chuck, W1HIS
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