April 30, 1967 was put
into operation the Moscow Ostankino TV Tower. Now it seems that it was
once the tallest building in the world, survived a fire in 2000, has always
been. But once it was just starting to build! Introduce you to a very
interesting, in our view, a report on the construction of a television tower -
with the technical details, based on historical photographs.
Tower, weighing more than 32 tons, built on a
monolithic reinforced concrete foundation ring width of 9.5 meters, 3 meters in
height and diameter (the circumscribed circle) of 74 meters. In decagonal
concrete foundation tape with the help of hard reinforcement ring (it consists
of 104 beams, each beam 24 wire with a diameter of 5 mm each) created
prestressing - each bundle is tensioned by hydraulic jacks with a force of
about 60 tons.
