Comparative Analysis of Transmission Poles Executed in Mild Steel and High Strength Steel

DOI

10.2991/icmce-14.2014.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Transmission Poles, High Strength Steels, Wind, General Method, Costs.

Abstract

This work aims at modeling and designing a transmission pole structure for further investigation of the economic benefits associated with various grades of steel. Indeed, it was necessary to develop a population of possible design cases, to check structural safety, from which were selected the less expensive solutions. To this end, a computer application was developed that performs the calculation of the wind action on the structure, designs and verifies structural safety automatically and individually for each case (in accordance with the general method of verifying safety against flexural buckling and lateral buckling, present in Eurocode 3 – EC3). An iterative design process yielded 296 viable solutions from which draw the analysis of manufacturing costs. Within this analysis were considered some average prices from which it was possible to calculate the total cost associated with each solution so as to obtain the most economical cases for each steel grade.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - João SOUSA
AU  - Jorge HENRIQUES
AU  - Rui BARROS
PY  - 2014/12
DA  - 2014/12
TI  - Comparative Analysis of Transmission Poles Executed in Mild Steel and High Strength Steel
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Mechanics and Civil Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 88
EP  - 93
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmce-14.2014.16
DO  - 10.2991/icmce-14.2014.16
ID  - SOUSA2014/12
ER  -