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This document provides an overview of considerations for designing tower foundations, including: 1) Tower foundations must resist significant uplift, compression, and side forces. Stability analysis ensures foundations can withstand overturning, sliding, and tilting due to soil pressures. 2) Strength design proportions foundation components to resist maximum loads from moments, shear, uplift, and thrust. Uplift resistance is the key factor in determining foundation size. 3) Other aspects of design include checking for stability against overturning, resisting sliding forces, and preventing uprooting of anchor stubs. Calculations consider failure cones and soil resistance.

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This document provides an overview of considerations for designing tower foundations, including: 1) Tower foundations must resist significant uplift, compression, and side forces. Stability analysis ensures foundations can withstand overturning, sliding, and tilting due to soil pressures. 2) Strength design proportions foundation components to resist maximum loads from moments, shear, uplift, and thrust. Uplift resistance is the key factor in determining foundation size. 3) Other aspects of design include checking for stability against overturning, resisting sliding forces, and preventing uprooting of anchor stubs. Calculations consider failure cones and soil resistance.

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PRESENTATION

ON

STABILITY AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS


OF TOWER FOUNDATIONS

Name : Shaik Saifulla L


USN : 1JB21CSE11
Design of tower foundations
• Transmission line towers, antenna towers, towers used for oil well derricks and mine-shaft equipment, beacon
supports. and observation platform, etc are examples of self-supporting towers.
• Out of these various types of towers, transmission line towers are subjected to torsional forces, in addition to other
forces.
• Normally, the tower foundation constitutes about 20 to 40 percent of the total cost of tower.
• The design of tower foundation is basically an interative procedure. Since the uplift force is predominant, the
design poses a number of problems, and hence, is amenable to computerization.
Design
There are two parts in the design. They are: Stability analysis, and strength design.
1. Stability analysis aims at removing the possibility of failure by overturning, uprooting, sliding and tilting of the
foundation due to soil pressure being in excess of the ultimate capacity of the soil.
2. The strength design con-sists of proportioning the components of the foundation to the respective maximum
moment, shear, pull and thrust or combination of the same.
3. The type of loading that controls the foundation design depends mainly on the kind of towers being designed. The
controlling design loads for four-legged lattice towers are vertical uplift, compression and side thrust.
Design for uplift resistance :
• Apart from resisting the vertical compression, the
soil surrounding a tower foundation has also to
resist a considerable amount of upward pull and
side thrust. As a matter of fact, the available uplift
resistance of the soil is the deciding factor in
selecting the size of the footing.
• Calculations of the ultimate uplift capacity
obtained by these methods show a wide
fluctuation as shown in Fig The method proposed
by Meyerhof and Adams, Matsuo and Balla have
been found to be in close agreement for sands (C =
0), but differ significantly for cohesive soils 4.
Check for sliding :
• The shear force acting on the foundation causes
bending stresses in the unsupported length of the
stub angle as well as in chimney/shaft of the
foundation and tends to overturn the foundation.
When the lateral resistance of the adjoining soil
is small or totally neglected as uncertain, the
bending and overturning actions will be more.
Stability against overturning :
Stability of the foundation against overturning may be checked
by the following criteria, Fig 5,:
1. the foundation tilts about a point in its base at a distance of
1/6th of its width from the toe
2. the weight of the footing acts at the centre of the base
3. mainly that part of the cone which stands over the heel,
causes the stabilising moment.
However, for design purposes, this may be taken equal to half
the weight of the cone of earth acting on the base. It is assumed
to act at the tip of the heel, Fig 5.
Uprooting of stub :
• Normally, the stub angle is taken inside the pad portion and anchored
by cleat angle and keying rods. In this case, the chimney, with the stub
angle inside, works as a composite member.
• Assuming that the stub angle is anchored in the footing as shown in Fig
6, the failure is assumed to be a cone surface plus a surface within the
concrete having the same diameter as the anchor bolt head (in the case
of headed anchors) or the anchor bolt body (in the case of headless
anchors). Thus, the horizontal projected area of the potential failure
cone is given by
Ap = (2y + dh)^2 - dh^3
where, dh = diameter of the anchor plate or bolt head. In- cidentally,
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