COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FOUR LEGGED SELF-SUPPORTED ANGULAR TELECOMMUNICATION TOWER ON GROUND AND MOUNTED ON ROOF TOP

C Preeti, Sankara Ganesh Dhoopam

Abstract: Due to increase in demand, huge number of telecommunication towers has been built in India during last few decades with the compulsion to provide efficient communication. Consequently, telecommunication sector in the country has expanded rapidly. Expanding base possesses challenges to mobile operators in terms of augmenting and upgrading infrastructure to uphold to excellence of services. A rapidly rising subscriber and a more rigorous band allocating organization may create a higher requirement of tower sites for operators to accommodate more subscribers. Hence it became an expensive and tedious task to spot ample land for construction of towers. This led to the extensive use of the rooftop of multi-storeyed buildings for installing communication towers. Formerly the majority of the buildings were not cautious to carry a roof top tower, however owing to the altered needs; buildings were rehabilitated to carry roof top towers. In this report analysis of 4 legged angular self-supporting telecommunication towers is performed. Assessment is done based on modal analysis, by comparing the results of roof top tower and ground based tower. In support of this intention, two 4 legged self-supporting telecommunication towers of 24m and 21m are modeled on roof top of a building and on the ground, considering the effects of wind loads as per Indian condition. Effects of wind on towers are employed from the IS 875 (Part 3)-1987 by using STAAD pro finite element software. The tower and building is analysed by placing towers at centre of roof. Axial forces experienced by the structures too have been obtained

Keywords: telecommunication tower, roof top, ground based, dynamic analysis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0410020