Experimental analysis on failure mechanism of 500 kV transmission tower under ice loading

Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3090-3096

  Xie, Qiang ^a,b   Sun, Li ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Failure mechanism; Finite element analysis; Ice loading; Static test; Subassemblage; Transmission tower

Indexed keywords

FAILURE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ICE LOADING; STATIC TESTS; SUBASSEMBLAGE; TRANSMISSION TOWER;

CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ICE; LOADING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STRAIN; TOWERS;

BUCKLING;

EID: 78651418567     PISSN: 10036520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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