Full-scale test and numerical failure analysis of a latticed steel tubular transmission tower

L Tian, H Pan, R Ma, L Zhang, Z Liu - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultimate capacity evaluation is of vital importance for electricity transmission tower-line
systems, which are well recognized as the lifeline engineering in modern society …

Ensuring the structural safety of overhead transmission lines by design

JX Li, G McClure, SH Wang - Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
During service, transmission lines (TLs) will be subjected to unbalanced longitudinal loads
due to events such as conductor breakage, insulator failure, and sudden ice shedding …

Wind fragility assessment and sensitivity analysis for a transmission tower-line system

J Wang, HN Li, X Fu, ZQ Dong, ZG Sun - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind fragility is essential to performance-based wind engineering, risk, and resilience
assessment for transmission towers. However, it has not been sufficiently studied due to the …

Multi‐hazard typhoon and earthquake collapse fragility models for transmission towers: An active learning reliability approach using gradient boosting classifiers

AB Jeddi, A Shafieezadeh, J Hur, JG Ha… - Earthquake …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural hazards such as earthquakes and typhoons pose a considerable threat to the power
transmission grid. In regions prone to both hazards, the overhead transmission infrastructure …

Full-scale test and its numerical simulation of a transmission tower under extreme wind loads

X Fu, J Wang, HN Li, JX Li, LD Yang - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate simulation of overhead transmission towers under extreme wind loads is
complicated due to the eccentrically connected angle section members. First, a full-scale …

Novel triple friction pendulum-tuned liquid damper for the wind-induced vibration control of airport control towers

X Hu, Z Zhao, K Yang, W Liao, Q Chen - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The airport control tower has been widely constructed for rapidly expanding transportation
demand, whose anti-wind performance and high-efficiency upgrading technology are …

Fragility modelling framework for transmission line towers under winds

Y Cai, Q Xie, S Xue, L Hu, A Kareem - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Extreme winds may expose overhead transmission lines to loads that may result in the
collapse of transmission towers leading to severe economic losses. This paper develops a …

Stress state and failure path of a tension tower in a transmission line under multiple loading conditions

X Fu, WL Du, HN Li, G Li, ZQ Dong, LD Yang - Thin-Walled Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
As important components of transmission tower-line systems, tension towers are used
mainly at the corner of the line or among several suspension towers to prevent their …

Effect of modelling complexities on extreme wind hazard performance of steel lattice transmission towers

Y Mohammadi Darestani… - Structure and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reliable computational models of transmission towers are key to improved hurricane risk
management of transmission systems. However, a comprehensive understanding of …

Fragility analysis of a long-span transmission tower–line system under wind loads

L Tian, X Zhang, X Fu - Advances in Structural Engineering, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Numerous transmission towers have collapsed due to experiencing strong winds; therefore,
the purpose of this article is to investigate the collapse mechanism and the anti-collapse …