Optimum Methods for Dynamic analysis of Telecommunication Tower: A Comparative Analytical Study

Over the past 35 years, the growing demand for wireless and broadcast communication has spurred a dramatic increase in steel telecommunication tower construction and maintenance. Failure of such structures due to severe earthquakes is a major concern. The Indian code suggests the detailed static and dynamic analysis provisions that are to be followed for lumped mass systems like buildings. In case of continuous structures the code only suggests the static analysis provisions in details. Due to the lack of detailed Indian codal provisions for dynamic analysis of telecommunication tower, this book is intended to give an insight on the comparative study using Response Spectrum method which is being carried out to obtain the optimum number of elemental discretization along with the optimum method of modal combination.