Abstract: A method of reinforcing the tower base in existing guyed towers. A guyed tower is a tower supported by a base and guy cables. The tower's foundations are Base and Deadman anchors. The base is an isolated spread footing which is pier and pad or pile foundation. This method of reinforcing is a new mechanism to transfer part of the download on base to an alternative mat foundation. The reason of using this mechanism is that the soil underneath the tower base is getting high stresses above its limit. The soil is getting overstressed due to some reasons that it happens frequently. The standard procedure is before building any tower, the Geotechnical engineer does test boreholes at the proposed location of the tower foundations (Base Deadman Anchors). The geotechnical engineer provides the soil report with soil parameters at each borehole. The structural engineer designs the guyed tower and get the download on the tower base to design the spread footing (or pile).

Abstract: A method of reinforcing the solid round leg in existing telecom towers (Guyed & Self-Support), it increases the leg resistance in compression (bearing load) over 50%. This type of reinforcing uses the principal and definition of axial force in truss structure by keeping the center of gravity of the new reinforcing members in the same location of the existing solid round leg. This type of reinforcing uses the existing splice pads as a foundation and a platform to build the new reinforcing structure on it. The new reinforcing structure is a replacement of the existing bolting system with new threaded bars and couplers with high strength. The addition of the new threaded bars benefits the overstressed leg, by adding more cross-sectional area to the original solid round leg section.