ITOWERS Designer Brochure

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IMI/ITW/BROCHURE/V01

A radical change in the design process

“ iTOWERS Designer is to a Tower Designer what a CT Scanner / MRI is to a Neurosurgeon”

Pattern LibraryGeometry Wizard

Automatic Drawings and Reports generator

3D Geometry of a300 m tower can now be

created in minutes

With thousands of patternsreadily available for

multiple optimization studies

Can help you do away with adrafting team and secretarial help

iTOWERS Designer is developed by a team of dedicatedStructural Engineers with Tower Design experience and extensively validated in a live

and practical design environment

APowerful tool

forElectricUtilities

Being usedby

Global Leadersin the

industry

Automatic loads generator

Calculates and applies wind loadsand wire loads automatically

Optimization engine

Optimization across variouspatterns, basic dimensions, weight,

type, shape and cost of steel

Automatic effective lengths

A relie f from thelaborious inputs for

the designer

Unique opportunity for engineers

Exclusive versions to equip

the designer for Transmission Line andMicrowave tower engineering

Expedite project implementation

Prevents Prototype

failure




iTOWERS Designer uses unique modular design concepts

combined with powerful tools and database that allow

compact data input, makes it easy to change towerconfiguration, provides realistic modeling and analysis,

iterative optimizations and in full compliance to all codes of

practice. And it does so very quickly. Where in otherwise

takes an engineer days to complete the geometry of a

single tower, iTOWERS Designer does the task in minutes.

iTOWERS Designer saves Tower Engineers the confusion

and expense of using unrelated software tools from

different vendors to accomplish what should be related

tasks – Tower geometry generation, Load calculations,

Structural analysis, Graphical verification, preparation of

Design reports and Drawings.

iTOWERS Designer has been extensively validated in alive and practical design environment.

iTOWERS Designer is designed to live and grow by allowing

the user open access to database to add new patterns,

sections etc.

High Specificity & High Sensitivity

iTOWERS Designer is specific to Tower Design and

Engineering. It is a tool that helps you with precise

understanding of structural behavior of the tower for

every sensitive change in design parameters.

High Productivity

iTOWERS Designer, with its unique features of design and

optimization is like adding a team of expert designers to

the design staff. Over-night!

Versatality

Open-ended and code independent. Fully adaptable

to changes in design codes.

Total Respect to fundamentals

3 dimensional geometry including redundants

Sub-structuring Technique

Member classification

Analysi s and design of mult iple body and legextensions in one go

Optimization

Intuitive Graphical User Interface

Tower Specifications

Tower Template

Drag & Drop of patterns

Interactive Design Calculator

Model verification - cross sections, elevations & plans

Deflected shapes & stress diagrams

Business Advantages

iTOWERS Designer integrated software will save your

business time and money. Why? Because iTOWERS

Designer covers the full spectrum of tower design. It is:

Fast Flexible Comprehensive

This means, for the first time, you can have the luxury of

creating a final – complete – tower design while still in the

preliminary bid stages. This gives you much greater

accuracy for costing and in proposal development. As aresult, you incur less risk and can gain an edge on the

competition.

With iTOWERS Designer software, multiple design

alternatives are a matter of a few key strokes – not hours

of re-doing. You sharply reduce design cycle time and

produce an optimal design – saving time and money.

In addition, at all stages of design, bills of materials,

comprehensive reports and design drawings are

automatically generated – saving time, which saves money.

iTOWERS Designer provides your structural engineers with

a full library of transmission line tower patterns forautomatic, fast and easy generation of tower geometry.

And it does so accurately – saving more time and eliminating

costly “re-do’s”.

Electric Utilities have found iTOWERS Designer especially

effective to:

Standardize the design of their transmission

line towers

Check tower contractor’s submissions to ensure the

most cost-effective design

Check the towers for Upgradation and Maintenance

in order to study their effectiveness to work under

different mechanical and environmental conditions

Upgrade to higher wind pressure

Upgrade to higher kV

Upgrade to new set of loading conditions

Replacement of missing/ corroded sections

Design checking for change of code of practice

Upgradation & Maintenance of Microwave Towers

Design CheckingOptimization while ensuring safety

Avoid failures of Proto - Testing

IMI’s dedication to research and development has

established it as a global leader for Transmission Line Towers and Microwave Towers

in developing software programs




Tower Specifications

Project details, Client details

Configuration & Voltage

Conductor & Groundwire

Standard for design

Standard for material (member, bolts)

Angle sizes

Design requirements

iTOWERS Designer contains open-ended database of angle sizes, steel & bolt properties, conductor & groundwire

properties. User can modify the existing data OR add their own data to these database and update the database asrequired using this interface.

This user interface enables the user to

specify all the input specifications at a

single location. All the codal provisions

pertaining to various international

standards are built-in in a library anduser can just click the appropriate

standard / code of practice and the

corresponding provis ions are

automatically passed on to the current

Tower.




Extensive on-line graphic support gives clear visual appreciation of tower design throughout the design process. The user

friendly environment facilities the user to interact efficiently to supply input parameters, to execute the software and toview various reports / drawings.

Graphical Input Generator

Interactive Graphics

Pattern Library (Global / Local) with redundants

Drag & drop of patterns

Interactive Design

Design Calculator

Display

3 dimensional Model verification

Cross sections, Elevations, Plans

Deflected shapes

Stress diagram

Viewing with Zoom, Pan, Rotate

Powerful and Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)




All Powerful Model Generator

iTOWERS Designer makes continuous

references to flexible database. Powerful

library of patterns in general use aids quick

and error-free generation of tower

geometry. User can easi ly add new

patterns to the library.

iTOWERS Designer provides a

comprehensive database of internationally

available steel sections. Assembled sections

are automatically derived from basic sections.

User can easily update and expand the

database.

Database of various international

design standards for

Steel and bolt properties

Conductor /Groundwire

properties

Design specifications

Section database

(Angle sizes)

Pattern library

Database and Libraries




Body wind loads for various tower combinationsare automatically calculated and applied on thetower. Also, Conductor & Groundwire loads canbe automatically generated in line with variousinternational standards.(IEC 826 ; IS:802-1995)

Apart from automatic loads generation, usermay specify any additional loads, if required.

Automatic Loads Generator

Body wind loads

Conductor & Groundwire loads

Wind loads

Self weightBroken wire loads

Temperature Loads

Ice Loads

Earthquake Loads

Broken wire combinations (Conductor/Groundwire)

Loads generation as per IEC:826,IS:802-1995

User defined loads

Automatic Loads Generator

iTOWERS Designer facilitates 3Dimensional finite element analysis of multiple tower combinations (body extensions & leg

extensions) in one go. Moreover, user has the facility to analyse the complete structure including redundants.

Analysis Engine

iTOWERS Designer facilitates interactive menu driven on-screen model generation with simultaneous 3D display. Sub-structuring technique allows the user to easily compose various tower combinations with body extensions and legextensions.

Easy Geometry generation toolsDrag & Drop of patternsMultiple duplications

Pattern Generator

Various configurations VerticalHorizontalTriangular baseRectangular & Square base

Body Extensions, Leg extensions

Tower Combinations




Member design is automatically performed for

the cr i t i ca l force out o f var ious load

combinations and various tower combinations,

in l ine with various international design

standards. Effect ive lengths, which are

required for member design, are automaticallycalculated by the software, thus reducing

enormous t ime needed for input data.

Moreover interact ive design calculator

facilitates the user to view the design results,

instantaneously, for any modification of input

parameters.

Tower Design

Design as per var ious national &

international standards

IS

Euro code

AISC

ASCEBS:5950, BS:8100

Egypt

Interactive Design calculator

Automat ic effective lengths for member

design.

Design Engine

Optimization Engine




Optimization is the underlying theme of all the iTOWERS Designer modules. iTOWERS Designer performs optimization

across all the possible alternatives duly considering various cost factors.

Optimum member size selection

Optimization across various steel grades (MS/HT/SHT)

Optimization across various section shapes

Equal & Unequal angles : Single, double back to back, double channel, double star, quadruple star, quadruple box

Pipes

Optimization across various patterns

Optimization across various tower dimensions

Base width, hamper width, top width

Panel heights

Various cost factors

Material procurement cost factor

Shape cost factor

Steel grade cost factor

Automatic Reports Generator




Extensive reports are generated, automatically, as a logical result of the design process itself. No secretarial help is

required to generate reports. iTOWERS Designer also has facilities to generate design reports in various formats.

Sag and Tension calculations

Load calculations

Member design calculations (Group wise / Member wise)

Member forces (Group wise/ Member wise)

Nodal displacements

Foundation forces (Transformed / Vertical)

Various report formats

Automatic Reports Generator




Automatic Generation of the fol lowing Drawings

Single line diagrams with all design details, elevations, plans and cross sectional views

Dimensioning

Member group names

Joint numbers

Body wind load diagram

Load Trees

Unlike the conventional software approach of

using computers as draft ing machines,

iTOWERS Designer provides for automatic

extract ion of drawings as a logical

consequence of the design process. Design

drawings are generated in ready-to-submit

format including dimensions, member group

names, joint numbers etc. User can also

export drawings into AutoCAD format, if need

be.

Automatic Drafting Engine

iTOWERS Designer is highly intuitive and any designer with basic understanding of Tower Design process

can quickly learn with the help of user manual and tutorial, delivered along with the software.

iTOWERS Designer runs on Pentium II or above with 128 MB RAM and 250 MB free disk space, Windows NT with

service pack 5 or above OR WINDOWS 2000, IE 5.0

Training

System Requirements




iTOWERS Designer is being used by global leaders in Transmission line field including

biggest utilities and tower companies

InternationalItaly

ABB T & D SpA, Milano.

Spain

EUCOMSA, Utrera (Sevilla)

(ABENGOA Group company).

Mexico

COMEMSA, Queretaro

(ABENGOA Group company).

Australia

POWERLINK, QueensLand.

Korea

Hyundai engineering & Construction Co. Ltd., Seoul.

Egypt

THE EGYPTIAN CO. FOR METALLIC CONSTRUCTION (METALCO), Cairo.

ALBABTAIN POWER &TELECOMMUNICATION, Cairo.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

ALBABTAIN POWER &TELECOMMUNICATION, Riyadh.

ARABIAN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY, Jeddah.

SAUDI ELECTRIC COMPANY (SOA), Abha.

SAUDI ELECTRIC COMPANY (CRB), Riyadh.

ZAMIL STEELS, Dammam.

Al Salam Industrial and Trading Est., Jeedah.

Partial List Of Installations

National

Delhi

Hyundai Unitech Electrical Transmission Ltd, New Delhi.

Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, New Delhi.

(One of the biggest grid corporations in the world).

Central Electricity Authority, New Delhi.




Maharashtra

KEC International Ltd, Mumbai.

(Second largest tower manufacturing company in the world).

Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd, Mumbai.

BAJAJ ELECTRICALS Ltd, Mumbai.

KEC International Ltd, Nagpur.

Associated Transrail Structures Ltd, Mumbai.

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh State Elec. Board, Hyderabad.

Advanced Radio Masts Ltd, Hyderabad.

Tata Projects Ltd, Hyderabad.

ICOMM, Hyderabad.

Aster Teleservices Private Ltd, Hyderabad.

West Bengal

TATA International Ltd, Kolkatta.West Bengal State Electricity Board, Kolkatta.

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board, Lucknow.

Rajasthan

Rajasthan State Electricity Board, Jaipur.

Man Structurals Ltd, Jaipur.

Gujarat

Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd, Gandhinagar.

Orissa

Hirakud Industrial Works Ltd, Hirakud.

iTOWERS Designer can be further expanded to Automatic Detailing, Project Management and Maintenance

of the total infrastructure of telecom operators and electric utilities with the help of iTOWERS Detailer and

iBASE, the other revolutionary products of IMI Software. For more information,

please visit our website. www.imisoft.com

iTOWERS Designer - The road map to future expansion

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