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Subject: | [TowerTalk] Guyed self-supporters |
From: | ccc@space.mit.edu (Chuck Counselman) |
Date: | Thu Apr 17 00:03:24 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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