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Symposium: S12 - Process modeling and simulations
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Structural Analysis of fiber- reinforced polymer Composites electrical Poles – An Uruguayan Study.

Raimonda Pablo (1)*, Perez Carolina (1), Mosca Daniel (1)

(1) Facultad de Ingeniería - UdelaR - Montevideo - Uruguay

Engineers are increasing tasked with designing and operating structures that incorporate the concept of resiliency across a variety of critical infrastructure sectors. The electric transmission systems of energy is one of the sector in our country witch are examples of these. The majority of existing of electrical poles uses in distribution in Uruguay, a South American country of 3.000.000 of people are made of Iron or concrete. The aim of the present work is to developed and a fiber – reinforce polymer composite pole, based on a finite element analysis, including parametric studies, on geometric characteristics, fiber orientation, number of layers and lamina thickness, adapted the Uruguayan climate and topography of deprived neighborhoods where work spaces are narrow and it is not possible to enter with machinery. Based on the Saboori and Kahlili (1) paper, and using ABAQUS, we found that in our poles: First of all, the maximum stress increase as the fiber orientation increases up to 45º with respect to the axial direction, and them decreases as the as the fiber orientation increases up to 60º Secondly, we notice an increase in the orientation of the fiber increases the maximum defection of the column, a fact that fact will verified with more work. We also demonstrate that the maximum deflection and maximum stress of the Fiber Reinforced poles use for this study decrease as the number of layer increase the thickness of the cross section, however, the rate of reduction decreases as the number of layers increases (1) Saboori, B and Khalili, S.M.R Static analysis of tapered FRP transmission poles using finite elements method. Journal of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2011 47(3) 217.