Draft
4.2Loads 79
Width
Location Height Width/2 Estimated Actual
dy
dx
Support 0 164 328 .333 18.4
o
Firstplatform 186 108 216 240 .270 15.1
o
secondplatform 380 62 123 110 .205 11.6
o
Intermediateplatform 644 20 40 .115 6.6
o
Topplatform 906 1 2 .0264 1.5
o
Top 984 0 0 0.000 0
o
4 Thetower is supportedby fourinclinedsupports,each witha crosssectionof 800in
2
. An
idealizationof thetower is shownin Fig.4.2.
ACTUAL
CONTINUOUS
CONNECTIONACTUAL
POINTS OF
CONNECTIONCONTINUOUS
CONNECTIONIDEALIZEDFigure4.2:Ei elTower Idealization,(BillingtonandMark1983)
4.2 Loads
5 Thetotalweight of thetower is 18; 800 k.
6 Thedeadloadis notuniformlydistributed,andis approximatedas follows,Fig.4.3:
Figure4.3:Ei elTower,DeadLoadIdealization;(BillingtonandMark1983)