Compliant pile system for supporting a guyed tower

A compliant pile system for supporting the vertical weight of a guyed tower structure of the type having a main truss member which extends between a marine bottom and the surface of a body of water and a plurality of guylines extending between said main truss member and said marine bottom to maintain said truss member in a vertical position, said pile system comprising:

• at least one pile element comprising:
• a pile jacket extending from the lower end of said main truss member to a point below the wave zone of said body of water, said pile jacket being affixed to only one point on said main truss member;
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• a pile member positioned within said pile jacket and extending from the top of said pile jacket to a point within said marine bottom, said pile member being affixed to said pile jacket only at the upper end of said pile member.

A compliant pile system for supporting the vertical weight of a guyed tower structure of the type having a main truss member which extends between a marine bottom and the surface of a body of water and a plurality of guylines extending between said main truss member and said marine bottom to maintain said truss member in a vertical position, said pile system comprising:

• at least one pile element comprising:
• a pile jacket, having an upper and lower end, extending from a first point of said main truss member to a second point on said main truss member, said second point being above said first point, said pile jacket affixed to said main truss structure only at the lower end of said pile jacket;
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• a pile member positioned through said pile jacket and extending from the upper end of said pile jacket to a point within said marine bottom, said pile member being affixed to the proximate upper end of said pile jacket at only the upper end of said pile member.

A compliant pile system for supporting the vertical weight of a guyed tower structure of the type having a main truss member which extends between a marine bottom and the surface of a body of water and a plurality of guylines extending between said main truss member and said marine bottom to maintain said truss structure in a vertical position, said pile system comprising:

• at least one pile element comprising:
• (a) a pile jacket extending from a first point of said main truss structure to a second point on said main truss, said second point being above said first point;
• said pile jacket comprising:
• an outer sleeve, having an upper and lower end, affixed at its upper end to said second point on said main truss, and
• an inner sleeve, having an upper and lower end, concentrically positioned within said outer sleeve, said inner and outer sleeves being affixed to each other at their proximate lower ends;
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• (b) a pile member positioned through said inner sleeve of said pile jacket and extending from the top of said pile jacket to within said marine bottom, said pile member being affixed to said inner sleeve only at the proximate upper end of said inner sleeve.