Affiliation:
1. Mechanical Engineering Department, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840
Abstract
This paper will study the feasibility of building a transmission tower from a composite material, E-glass and Vinylester. The tower was fabricated using a fabrication process called pultrusion. Also instead of using the conventional fastener method to join the cross members to the leg members, the design team utilized a slip joint that was developed by Goldsworthy Engineering The lamina of the leg member and the cross bracing were tested and compared with two analytical failure criteria, Yeh-Stratton Criterion and Quadratic (strain space) Criterion. In addition to ply failure analysis a full scale tower tests were performed at Electrical and Power Research Institute.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Ceramics and Composites
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