• Analyse steel, timber and concrete monopoles.
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• Specify lap, plate and welded joints between shaft segments.
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• Select from over 700 predefined antennas from CommScope, Ericsson, Huawei, Kathrein, RFS and Tongyu.
• Shaft design to LRFD LTS-1, AS 4100, AS/NZS 4600, AS/NZS 7000, CSA S37, EN 40-3-3, NZS 3404 and TIA-222-H.
• Connection design to LRFD LTS-1, AS 4100, CSA S37, NZS 3404 and TIA-222-H (including gussets and grout).
• Fatigue design to LRFD LTS-1.
• Foundation analysis for square, rectangular, symmetrical and unsymmetrical pads.
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• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 2019, ‘LRFD LTS-1 LRFD Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaries, and Traffic Signals’.
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2012, ‘ASCE/SEI 48-11 Design of Steel Transmission Pole Structures’.
• American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) 2005, ‘ANSI/AISC 360-05 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings’.
• Australian Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) 2004, ‘Design Capacity Tables for Structural Steel Volume 2: Hollow Sections’, 2nd edn.
• Australasian Wind Engineering Society (AWES) 2012, ‘Wind Loadings Handbook for Australia and New Zealand Background to AS/NZS 1170.2 Wind Actions’.
• British Standards Institute 2009, ‘BS EN 1993-1-1-2005 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings’.
• British Standards Institute 2009, ‘BS EN 1993-1-8-2005 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1-8: Design of joints’.
• British Standards Institute 2009, ‘BS EN 1993-1-9-2005 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 1-9: Fatigue’.
• British Standards Institute 2008, ‘BS EN 1993-3-2-2006 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures – Part 3-2: Towers, masts and chimneys – Chimneys’.
• British Standards Institute 2008, ‘BS EN 1991-1-4:2005 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures – Part 1-4: General actions – Wind actions’.
• British Standards Institute 2013, ‘BS EN 40-3-3:2013 Lighting columns Part 3-3 Design and verification – Verification by calculation’.
• CSA Group 2014, ‘CSA S16-14 Design of steel structures’.
• CSA Group 2018, ‘CSA S37-18 Antennas, towers, and antenna-supporting structures’.
• Giosan, I, ‘Vortex Shedding Induced Loads on Free Standing Structures’.
• Hansen, S 2007, ‘Vortex-induced vibrations of structures’.
• Holmes, JD 2015, ‘Wind Loading of Structures’, 3rd edn.
• Horn, D 2011, ‘Technical Manual 1 – Design of Monopole Bases’.
• International Committee on Industrial Chimneys (CICIND) 2002, ‘Model Code for Steel Chimneys’.
• International Committee on Industrial Chimneys (CICIND) 2002, ‘Model Code for Steel Chimneys – Commentaries and Appendices’.
• Rocla 2015, ‘RocPole™ Version 5.0 Application User Guide’.
• Standards Australia 1985, ‘AS 1275-1985 Metric screw threads for fasteners’.
• Standards Australia 1998, ‘AS 4100-1998 Steel structures – Commentary’.
• Standards Australia 2010, ‘AS 5100.3-2004 Bridge design Part 3: Foundations and soil-supporting structures’.
• Standards Australia 2012, ‘AS 4100-1998 Steel structures’.
• Standards Australia 2013, ‘AS 3600-2009 Concrete structures’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 1998, ‘AS/NZS 4600 Supplement 1:1998 Cold-formed steel structures – Commentary’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2000, ‘AS/NZS 4676:2000 Structural design requirements for utility service poles’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2003, ‘AS/NZS 1170.3:2003 Structural design actions Part 3: Snow and ice actions’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2009, ‘AS/NZS 1170.1:2002 Structural design actions Part 1: Permanent, imposed and other actions’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2010, ‘AS/NZS 7000:2010 Overhead line design – Detailed procedures’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2011, ‘AS/NZS 1170.0:2002 Structural design actions Part 0: General principles’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2011, ‘AS/NZS 3678 Structural steel – Hot-rolled plates, floorplates and slabs’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2011, ‘AS/NZS 4600:2005 Cold-formed steel structures’.
• Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 2017, ‘AS/NZS 1170.2:2011 Structural design actions Part 2: Wind actions’.
• Standards New Zealand 1997, ‘NZS 3404:Part 1:1997 Steel Structures Standard’.
• Telecommunications Industry Association 2014, ‘TIA-222-G-2 Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and Antennas’.
• Telecommunications Industry Association 2017, ‘TIA-222-H Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures, Antennas and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures’.
• Wilson, K 1997, ‘Bearing Pressures for Rectangular Footings with Biaxial Uplift’, Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 27-33.
• University of Sydney (USYD) 2002, ‘Advice on Design of Polygonal Poles for Power Transmission Lines’, University of Sydney Centre for Advanced Structural Engineering Investigation Report No. S1356.

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