Structural Analysis

Many broadcast towers were designed and built long before the latest CAD programs were available. Some towers were designed with manual calculations or very early computer systems that were extremely limited in the number of fields they could process. Utilizing the latest generation structural analysis tools can provide a very clear picture of what a tower can actually accommodate. In many cases, towers that were thought to be fully loaded can have additional capacity by simply adjusting guy tension, adding redundants or other simple changes.

In addition to knowing the true capacity of a tower, insurance companies as a result of recent high profile losses are demanding to know the true status of the heavy structures they are insuring. If your insurer has not already requested an updated analysis of the tower, they probably soon will.

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