Dish Antennas Disposition Study on Self-Supporting Towers

Authors

  • Patricia Martín Rodríguez Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae
  • Vivian Beatriz Elena Parnás Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae
  • Angel Emilio Castañeda Hevia Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae

Keywords:

self-supporting telecommunication towers, dish antennas, wind load

Abstract

Latticed towers of telecommunication are very vulnerable structures under wind loads essentially if these loads are due to wind forces from hurricanes. A number of 59 towers collapsed or partially failed from 1996 to 2012 in Cuba under wind action forces. A study of failures confirmed that many of them supported various antennas. Towers were designed to support a little number of antennas however; communication development generated an increase of antennas on the existing structures with a modification of the structural behavior. The aim of this work is to assess the effect of antennas disposition on many structural parameters as displacement, stress on member and frequency of the tower by means of a numerical experiment.

Author Biography

Patricia Martín Rodríguez, Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae

Profesora Asistente del departamento de estructuras de la fac. de ing. civil

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Published

2015-12-14

How to Cite

Martín Rodríguez, P., Elena Parnás, V. B., & Castañeda Hevia, A. E. (2015). Dish Antennas Disposition Study on Self-Supporting Towers. Revista Cubana De Ingeniería, 6(3), 23–32. Retrieved from https://rci.cujae.edu.cu/index.php/rci/article/view/374

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2015): (septiembre-diciembre)

Section

Original Articles

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