Predicting Tower Guy Pretension Using a Neural Network
Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Composite Columns
Reuse of an Industrial Wastewater at Saturn
The cooling tower at General Motor's Saturn Plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee will produce blowdown wastewater at rates as high as 500,000 gallons (1893 m3/day)....
Liabilities in Temporary Structures Failures—Representative Case Histories
Eight case studies involving construction accidents caused by failure of temporary structures are presented. These studies illustrate the oftentimes unintended consequence of utilizing...
Reliability of Overhead Transmission Lines Subjected to Wind Action
The probability distribution of the strength of steel towers used in transmission lines, due to wind excitation, is evaluated on the basis of test results of 72 towers of various designs,...
Composite T Beam Bridge Deck on Timber Towers
Transmission Line Structure Loading
This paper outlines specific procedures for determining loads on transmission line structure systems that can be used in the reliability based design or assessment of components of these...
Improved Techniques for Assessing Structures
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has specially designed and equipped the tower testing station located within their Transmission Line Mechanical Research Center (TLMRC) near...
Assessment of Conductors
This paper deals with the mechanical integrity of conductors after several years in service and discusses current innovative conductor designs which benefit the structural designer working...
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...
Longitudinal Impact Loading of Transmission Towers
A scale model has been developed to study a containment failure design concept for longitudinal (along the direction of the conductor) impact loading of electrical transmission structures....
Variation in Design Practice for Lattice Towers
The design and analysis procedures employed for lattice transmission towers vary among countries, companies, and designers. This variation in design practice affects the relative reliability...
New Outlines for 500 kV Transmission Towers Using Cold-Formed Shapes: The Experimental Line of the American Electric Power Research Institute
The use of cold-formed steel members, in electrical transmission towers, is actually a feasible, reliable and economical solution. The EPRI experimental line is an example of the newest...
Modular Restoration Structures—A Versatile and Cost Effective Transmission Tool
Most electric utilities use a large variety of different types and designs of transmission structures. Because of this, it is not practical or economically justifiable for these utilities...
Optimization of Cable Prestresses of Cable Stayed Bridges Based on Minimum Strain Energy Criterion
In this study, an attempt is made to determine the optimum cable prestresses based on the strain energy criterion. The validity of the strain energy criterion on the optimum cable prestresses...
Wind Tunnel Testing of the Karnali River Bridge
An extended wind tunnel testing program of the erection procedures and the stability of the completed one-tower cable-stayed Karnali River Bridge was conducted with the help of full bridge...
Inelastic Earthquake-Resistant Design of Bridges—Application to Concrete Cable-Stayed Bridges
Various methods of earthquake-resistant design of bridges use in both the U.S. and Japan are summarized and reviewed. Among them, principles of approximate and rigorous inelastic earthquake...
The Measurement of Structural Deflections
A basic parameter to be determined when assessing the performance of structures is the stiffness. This involves the measurement of static and/or dynamic deflections at representative locations...
Assessment of Transmission Line Foundations
Electric utilities are faced with the need to build new transmission lines or to upgrade existing lines to meet future demands. Because of economic constraints and the difficulty of obtaining...
Structural Analysis of Guyed Antenna Towers with Compression-Torsion Coupling
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