Abstract:

One of most important things before the structural analysis is choosing the right calculation model. In order to find out the behavior of the transmission tower in different wind conditions, an angle steel tower and tube tower were analyzed with truss model, beam-truss model and rigid model. The results showed that using truss model can meet design specification in angle steel tower. However, the results indicated that it’s much more reasonable to use beam model than the truss model in tube tower.