COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO MONITORING THE LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURES OF OVERHEAD POWER TRANSMISSION TOWERS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS

Within the framework of this work, a computational and experimental approach to
determining the actual technical condition of overhead power transmission poles is
proposed. The methodology developed with this approach in mind is a simple sequence of
numerical calculations, technical measures to inspect damaged elements and, if necessary,
repair individual overhead line structural elements. The peculiarity of the proposed
technique is that it additionally takes into account the features of deformation of overhead
line support structures during the destruction of individual elements, as well as operational
defects in the structures.