A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ANALYSIS OF TELECOMMUNICATION TOWER WITH DIFFERENT MEMBER CROSS SECTION

Over past three decades there is an increasing demand for wireless communication which leads to dramatic increase of communication tower construction. Stability of such structure is a major concern. Therefore among the various cross section of members used for the construction of telecommunication towers, efficient cross section of the member has to be identified for maintaining the stability of the structure under various conditions. The main objective of this paper is to identify the efficient member cross section suitable for the telecommunication tower by carrying out a comparative analysis of telecommunication towers with different member cross section for different heights. The towers are modelled and modal analysis has been carried out for various member cross sections of telecommunication towers for four different heights using FEA package ANSYS Workbench. As a result, frequencies are compared for different member cross section for the corresponding mode shapes. The results of this comparative analysis demonstrate the efficiency of a particular member cross section of tower which can be adopted for communication purposes.