<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents the preparation phase for model of transmission tower lattice construction using ANSYS APDL environment. Beam elements are used for the model which introduce complications in the preparation phase because of the need to define the beam shape. Considering that the lattice construction of the transmission tower consists of hundreds of trusses it is obvious that some auxiliary tool is necessary for preparation of such model in ANSYS APDL. This tool was programmed in SW Wolfram Mathematica.</p></abstract>

This paper presents the preparation phase for model of transmission tower lattice construction using ANSYS APDL environment. Beam elements are used for the model which introduce complications in the preparation phase because of the need to define the beam shape. Considering that the lattice construction of the transmission tower consists of hundreds of trusses it is obvious that some auxiliary tool is necessary for preparation of such model in ANSYS APDL. This tool was programmed in SW Wolfram Mathematica.

Software for Model Preparation of Transmission Lattice Construction

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechatronics

Strojnícky časopis - Journal of Mechanical Engineering

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This paper presents the preparation phase for model of transmission tower lattice construction using ANSYS APDL environment. Beam elements are used for the...

Software for Model Preparation of Transmission Lattice Construction

Published Online: Nov 15, 2019

Page range: 89 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scjme-2019-0034

Keywords
beam element, lattice construction, transmission tower, APDL, Wolfram Mathematica

© 2019 Paulech Juraj et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Software for Model Preparation of Transmission Lattice Construction

Published Online: Nov 15, 2019

Page range: 89 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scjme-2019-0034

Keywordsbeam element, lattice construction, transmission tower, APDL, Wolfram Mathematica

© 2019 Paulech Juraj et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
beam element, lattice construction, transmission tower, APDL, Wolfram Mathematica