Research

From full-scale testing of steel lattice towers to stochastic reliability analysis

Analysis of the steel lattice telecommunication structure exposed to the wind pressure, whose average value is treated as the Gaussian random variable. The Least Squares Method is provided here for symbolic recovery of the polynomial responses of ...

Stochastic Finite Element Analysis and Reliability Of Steel Telecommunication Towers

The main issue in this article is computational probabilistic analysis and reliability assessment of the steel telecommunication towers subjected to material and environmental uncertainty. Such a discussion is important since very wide, frequent a...

Least Squares Stochastic Finite Element Method in Structural Stability Analysis of Steel Skeletal Structures

Basic probabilistic characteristics and reliability indices of critical forces for high steel skeletal towers are numerically modeled by using the Stochastic, perturbation-based Finite Element Method. It is implemented together with the Weighted L...

Eigenvalue analysis for high telecommunication towers with lognormal stiffness by the response function method and SFEM

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the application of the generalized stochastic perturbation techniąue to model the lognormal random variables in structural mechanics. This is done to study probabilistic characteristics of the eigenvibr...

Steel Lattice Tower Under Ultimate Load – Chosen Joint Analysis

The main objective of the presented paper is to discuss chosen lattice tower joint behavior under structure ultimate load. Joint numerical modelling considerations are enriched with comparison to the full-scale tower pushover test results.

Experiment-based reliability analysis of structural joints in a steel lattice tower

The main aim of this paper is to present a reliability estimation procedure for steel lattice telecommunication towers based on tensioned joint reliability. The experiment, which involved doing a full-scale pushover test of a 40 m high lattice tow...

A full-scale experiment of a lattice telecommunication tower under breaking load

The main aim of this paper is to present results of a full-scale pushover test of a 40 meter telecommunication tower under breaking load. A detailed description of the studied tower has been presented with emphasis on the geometrical imperfections...

An experimental investigation into failure mechanism of a full-scale 40 m high steel telecommunication tower

The main objective of this paper is to present and discuss failure mechanism, failure mode, as well as plastic deformation of a lattice telecommunication tower obtained during a full-scale pushover test. The manuscript consists of a detailed descr...