Design Loads
This chapter discusses the types of loadings that should be considered when designing overhead power lines utilizing fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) poles. For infrastructure applications...
Assembly and Erection
This chapter is intended to provide recommendations on transporting, handling, assembling, and erecting fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) poles. An important consideration is that FRP poles...
Loading Requirements for FRP Poles Utilized in other than Utility Line Applications
Tomoka River Transmission Line Crossing: Just Another Wood Pole Replacement Project
Power Struggle
The Florida Light and Power Company could have replaced its deteriorating, H-shaped wooden power poles in the Tomoka River with exact duplicates, but they chose to use hybrid steel-and-concrete...
South Pole Station New Power Plant Case Study
Optimal Design of Steel Transmission Poles
An Innovative Approach of Replacing Wood Pole H-Frame River Crossing Structures
Generator Field Pole Structural Analysis and Testing
Florida's Big Bellies
FPL designed and installed double reverse tapered poles, affectionately called big belly because the width gradually increases toward the middle and narrows at both ends. The poles replace...
Optimal Design of Prestressed Concrete Transmission Poles
ASCE GUIDE for Design of Guyed Transmission Structures
This paper describes the contents of a new ASCE guide for the selection and design of guyed electrical transmission structures. Guyed transmission structures present unique analysis and...
Utility Pole Can Be Installed By Hand or Helicopter
How Tall Transmission Poles Survived Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane Andrew Induced Damage to Florida Power & Light's Transmission System
Role of Vortex-Excited Vibrations in Damage to Power Poles in Hurricane Andrew
Reliability-Centered Management of Wood Transmission Lines
Through implementing reliability-centered management concepts, more cost-effective management of wood pole transmission lines may be achieved. By identifying individual structures and...
Design of Steel Transmission Pole Structures
New Concepts in Transmission Line Design
Committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers have been in the forefront on updating design guides to address improved procedures for conventional latticed towers, formed-plate...
Power Pole Foundations in Reclaimed Mining Area
In central Florida, where strip mining for phosphate ore is a primary industry, street surfaces often become rolling because of differential settlement, and electrical transmission poles...
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