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Cindy Kumalasari, Lihong Shen, Murty K.S. Madugula, and Faouzi Ghrib
Bolted ring-type splices are very common in guyed communication towers using solid round legs 65 mm in diameter or smaller, but there is no guidance provided in either the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Handbook of steel construction or the American Institute of Steel Construction Manual of steel construction for the design of such splices. Eighteen ring-type splices (three groups of six specimens each) were tested and
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eccentricity of splice, guyed towers, ring-type splice, solid round legs, tensile strength.
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