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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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