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In order to study the dynamic response of transmission tower equipped with a pendulum damper induced by wind load, a simulation, considering wind load acting on pendulum, is implemented. Deducing the vibration equation of transmission tower-pendulum system induced by wind and utilizing harmony superposition method and Davenport power spectra to simulate fluctuating wind load, time history analysis based on Newmark β step-by-step integration method is conducted to study the influence on displacements of pendulum and tower tip in the two conditions of considering and unconsidering wind load acting on pendulum damper. It can be found that pendulum displacement would be underestimated, and tip displacement would be overestimated if we dont consider wind load acting on pendulum.

The Cup-type transmission tower-line system was a classic representative of high voltage electric power carrier, which was an important lifeline project. However, it frequently collapsed under different environmental loadings, especially strong wind. In this work, four tower five line finite element models simulated wind-induced progressive collapse process by birth-to-death element technique in ABAQUS/Explicit. The numerical simulation results demonstrated that this application could describe the structural collapse performance clearly and effectively and transmission tower-line system collapse path depended on the number, position and last deformation of damage elements.