Streamline your Pole Loading Process with SPIDAcalc
Pole Loading Basics: Fundamentals for Modern Utility Infrastructure
Pole loading is a critical process in the design and construction of utility infrastructure. Understanding, analyzing, and accounting for the forces that affect utility poles—such as equipment weight, environmental conditions, and the size, strength, and material of the pole—prevents overloading, which can otherwise lead to failure.
Utilizing software to eliminate guesswork and errors ensures that you stay compliant with safety codes and standards, as well as accelerates design and construction time.
Learn how to ensure you are designing safe and reliable pole designs with our pole loading basics e-book.
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- The three types of external loads
- How to ensure safety and stability
- Key factors in pole loading analysis
- Adopting pole loading basics
- And more!
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Hear from Our Users
BC Hydro
BC Hydro Creates Consistency in Pole Design and Analysis While Ensuring Government Compliance
By adopting SPIDAcalc, BC Hydro could update and validate standards that meet requirements for geometric nonlinear analysis for pole loading.
Utilities Kingston
Utilities Kingston Streamlines and Simplifies Design Analysis
SPIDAcalc simplified the design analysis process by moving from manual to modern workflows.
Go Beyond Pole Loading with SPIDAcalc
Collect, Model, and Optimize your Overhead T&D Assets
SPIDAcalc is an application that allows users to quickly model pole line data and output detailed results based on user-defined settings. Utilizing a combination of an easy-to-use graphical interface and a robust analysis engine, SPIDAcalc provides accurate pole loading results, easing the process of modeling, analyzing, and optimizing overhead T&D assets.
