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I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.

I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.

I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.

I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.

I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.

I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.

I am designing a 150' tall, 14' square trussed tower. We loaded our tower using the trussed tower loading. Our ultimate trussed tower loading turned out to be about 73psf. After running the same criteria through lattice frame loading, that load turned out to be around 42psf. We loaded our tower using the 73psf, and applied that loading to all faces of our tower, since we felt like all members would easily have a wind shadow and be able to take wind. The numbers we're getting are extremely high.

After looking over everything I'm starting to think we put too much load on this tower. I'm hesitant to go with the lighter load, however these reactions I'm getting are unbelievably high.

So my questions are as follows:

1. After reading online it seems like lattice Frameworks is for a 2d structure and must be loaded on all faces. Trussed Tower loading accounts for the extra wind shadows behind the front face and in my case that 73psf wind loading, only needs to be applied to the front face. Is that correct?

2. When modelling this tower, I had used an open structure load distribution that applies loading to every member under that area based on the member's size. This is very useful as member sizes change during design and having the program take care of loading the members based on their size is very helpful rather than me manually changing it each time. My question is, if my above assumptions are correct, would loading a truss tower, using the lattice frameworks wind load on every face, be comparable to using the trussed tower loading on just the front face? I assume it would be slightly on the conservative side, however still applicable?

3. Can you help further explain the difference behind the "wind loading along tower diagonal" vs "wind normal to face" under Trussed Towers? For loading 45 degrees to the faces of this square tower, I had planned on taking the "wind normal to face" loading, x .707 and using the loading on both faces. Can this "wind along tower diagonal" somehow take the place of doing that?

I have talked over this with multiple engineers in our office and we have not been able to prove that we can just apply the trussed tower loading to only the front face, so we've just put that load on all faces, however with this big project I want to make sure I properly load structure as it will have a big impact on my design.