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Base Pad Width (Perp. To Sail)

This document contains calculations for soil bearing capacity and overturning stability of a cylindrical pad and tower structure. Key parameters provided include a soil density of 18 kN/m3, soil angle of 30 degrees, maximum pressure of 400 kPa, pad and tower weight of 103.3 kN, and cylinder dimensions. Calculations determine factors of safety against sliding, overturning, and bearing capacity. Optimization routines are available to vary dimensions to achieve a factor of safety of 2.0 or higher.

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Base Pad Width (Perp. To Sail)

This document contains calculations for soil bearing capacity and overturning stability of a cylindrical pad and tower structure. Key parameters provided include a soil density of 18 kN/m3, soil angle of 30 degrees, maximum pressure of 400 kPa, pad and tower weight of 103.3 kN, and cylinder dimensions. Calculations determine factors of safety against sliding, overturning, and bearing capacity. Optimization routines are available to vary dimensions to achieve a factor of safety of 2.0 or higher.

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Soil density G 18.

0kN/m3 See instructions below


Only input values into blue coloured cells
Soil angle 30
Max pressure 400 kPa Pad+Tower+overburden weight 103.3kN 1.52m3 Updated 28 September 2000
Kp 3.00 66kNm Cylinder weight 0.0kN 67.5kN
breadth B 2.50m 0kNm 103.3kN
Height H 0.20m Pad horiz 16.5kN 0.0
length L 3.00m Pole horiz 0.0kN 0
Cylinder length H_2 0.00m Sliding resist 16.5kN
Fs
Cyl. Outside diameter D 0.76 FOS sliding FOS=1.50 0
Cyl. Wall thickness 10.0mm
Cylinder density 23.5kN/m3 15.1kN/m Overturning Mmt 68.23484181 Hm
386.2 kPa Resisting Moment 156.0798121 Fm
depth of overburden h_o 0.5 FOS overturning FOS=2.29
Tower weight 0.0kN Hs
Centroid of sail Hs 6.00m 400 kPa Total pressure Ground Level
Centroid of mast above GL Hm 0.00m p2 386 kPa H ho
Sail force Fs 11.0kN r_1 0.036 L
Mast force Fm 0.00kN Find "length" for a 0.200m H
Driving moment Md 73.7kNm FOS-bearing = 2.0 e 0.007m
pv
Deadload pressure pv 13.77 kPa L_2 2.793m
19.7 kPa M 148kNm L_2 e a p2
"Optimise" routine requires Excel's solver add-in to be installed. FOS bearing FOS=2.01 Pad not in
contact with
ground over
L_2, so zero
pressure here 2

Base width of pad


Optimise B,L for given H Optimise B,H for given L Optimise H,L for given B Optimise B,H,L

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