المجلة الدولية للعلوم والتقنية

In this paper, the effect of wind pressure on the electrical transmission tower structure was numerically simulated and analyzed. The numerical model was built based on existing towers used in Libya, scaled down by the scale of 1:10. The wind pressure was obtained from a CFD simulation of the wind flow over the tower using ANSYS Fluent. Then, the stresses and deformations of the towers, which resulted from the wind pressure, were calculated using ANSYS Static Structure program. There sults showed that wind velocity and pressures exerted by the wind share an exponential relationship, where a slight increase in wind velocity leads to a significant increase in pressure exerted on the tower. The total deformation and equivalent stresses have a linear relationship with the wind pressure and an exponential relationship with the wind velocity. Keywords: Suspension Tower design, Finite element analysis, ANSYS, static analysis, CFD simulation