The growth of telecommunications in Indonesia in the recent decade has been very
rapid, marked by the construction of telecommunications towers spread throughout
Indonesia.
A self-supporting telecommunications tower is a telecommunication building
structure that uses a combination of steel frames as its construction material.
Telecommunications towers function as support for telecommunications equipment to
transmit signals that support the communication systems that we frequently use today.
Many technology developers build or re-plan towers to expand networks or
communication signals. In tower planning, the load that has a dominant influence is the wind
load because wind is a lateral load which has a high sensitivity to steel construction buildings
which tend to have low mass. The height of the tower that is made depends on the location
of the tower itself.
The calculation of the structure of telecommunications towers in Indonesia currently
refers to the regulations of the Telecommunications Industry Association and Electronic
Industries Association or better known as TIA/EIA-222-F which was officially issued in
1996. Then in early 2006 TIA/EIA-222-G was officially issued which is a revision of
TIA/EIA-222-F. Furthermore, in 2018 the new Standard of TIA/EIA-222-H is governed
until nowadays. All this regulation is still not used as a reference or being standardized in
planning telecommunications towers in Indonesia and has additional new detail feature to
be considered into the analysis.
Based on the results of the structural analysis, with reference to the TIA/EIA-222-
H:2018 Standard, the writer conducted an analysis of the structure, the writer considered an
additional new standardized earthquake lateral load applied to the structure and determining
the Maximum Stress Ratio at a wind speed of 89.48 mph [40 m/s]. Furthermore, the writer
estimated the fabrication cost, limited to the structure, to be approximately Rp548,694,670.29.