RSTAB 8 Add-on Modules – Towers and Masts

The TOWER Structure add-on module provides an innovative workflow simplification for generating geometrically complex 3D tower structures. You can easily create lattice and cell towers by entering the parameters.

Furthermore, you can modify the existing RFEM models using TOWER Structure.

Masts serve as supporting structures for transmission antennas and various equipment, such as platforms, ladders, and cable ducts, that must be taken into account for the design.

In the TOWER Equipment add-on module, you can easily generate transmitter systems with the relevant equipment.

This add-on module generates the design-relevant actions for RSTAB 8. They can be specified as parameterized wind loads, ice loads, and live loads.

For the generation, the objects created in TOWER Structure and TOWER Equipment are also taken into account.

The TOWER Effective Lengths add-on module determines the buckling lengths of members used in lattice towers with square, rectangular, or triangular floor plans.

Both user-defined lattice towers created in the main program RSTAB as well as the lattice towers created in the add-on modules TOWER Structure and TOWER Equipment are considered in the input. After determining the effective lengths, you can export them to the TOWER Design add-on module for further design.

The TOWER Design add-on module designs lattice towers according to EN 1993‑1‑1, EN 1993‑3‑1, and EN 50341.

The software provides an automatic cross-section classification, design of triangular and quadrilateral lattice towers including National Annexes, and a flexural buckling analysis of truss members. The results are clearly displayed in result tables, and it is possible to create a parts list and a verifiable printout report.