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

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

João Tasso Sousa (Author) FEUP; Henriques, J (Author) Other; Rui Carneiro de Barros (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHANICS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

Pages: 88-93

International Conference on Mechanics and Civil Engineering (ICMCE)

Wuhan, PEOPLES R CHINA, DEC 13-14, 2014

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Authenticus ID: P-00A-7S3

DOI: 10.2991/icmce-14.2014.16

Abstract (EN): 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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6