Failure analysis of transmission line towers

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-240

  Prasad Rao, N ^a   Samuel Knight, G M ^b   Seetharaman, S ^a   Lakshmanan, N ^a   Iyer, Nagesh R ^a  

^a CSIR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Nonlinear analysis; Redundants; Tower testing; Transmission line towers

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BRACING MEMBERS; ELASTOPLASTIC BEHAVIOR; FAILURE PATTERNS; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; FULL-SCALE TESTING; NON-LINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; PREMATURE FAILURES; REDUNDANTS; RESEARCH STATIONS; SLENDERNESS RATIOS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TEST RESULTS; TOWER TESTING; TRANSMISSION LINE TOWERS; ULTIMATE LOADS;

ELECTRIC LINES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

TOWERS;

EID: 79959428543     PISSN: 08873828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000161     Document Type: Article

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