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Layout optimization of transmission line family structures

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Due to topography conditions, transmission line towers (TLTs) with different heights are required to the same transmission line. To ease industrial production, the supports are designed in components such as basic body, body extensions, and legs. This modulation is the so-called structure family, which leads to a cost-effective global procedure. Nevertheless, a comprehensive literature survey reveals that the TLTs optimization studies carried out hitherto have been focused only on the tallest structure using linear analysis. Hence, the procedure proposed by de Souza et al. (Eng Struct 111:162–184, 2016) is expanded, and general rules for template creation are proposed to the entire set of the support components, such as inclined tower body, tower top, body extensions, and legs. Then, because of the very high computational time required for the layout optimization of TLTs families, this article proposes a master-slave-based procedure for this purpose. It ensures weight reductions while saving substantial processing time. Moreover, a geometric nonlinear analysis is called in the final solution to minor corrections in some elements, mainly due to the slender structures determined in the optimization. The scheme is performed on an actual tower family, showing that it can reduce up to 7% of the global family mass compared to the original design’s size optimization.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement (Coordenaço de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)-Brasil (CAPES)-Finance Code 001. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of CNPq (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development) and COPEL (Companhia Paranaense de Energia) by means of the R&D project 6491-0311/2013.

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  1. Leandro Fleck Fadel Miguel, Rafael Holdorf Lopez, André Jacomel Torii and Joel Vitor Pimenta have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Rua João Pio Duarte Silva, sn, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 88037-000, Brazil

    Alexandre Deichmann, Leandro Fleck Fadel Miguel & Rafael Holdorf Lopez

  2. Latin American Institute of Technology, Federal University of Latin American Integration, Av. Tancredo Neves, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, 85867-900, Brazil

    André Jacomel Torii

  3. Copel Geração e Transmissão S.A., COPEL GT, Rua José Izidoro Biazetto, 158, Curitiba, Paraná, 81200-240, Brazil

    Joel Vitor Pimenta

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Deichmann, A., Fadel Miguel, L.F., Lopez, R.H. et al. Layout optimization of transmission line family structures. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 44, 126 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-022-03381-6

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