Design and Analysis of Mast Diagonal Mounting for Incessant Communication

• Main Authors: Yugandhar GARAPATI, Venkateswara Rao GURRALA, Srinivasa Rao KARUMURI
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IFSA Publishing, S.L. 2015-02-01
• Series: Sensors & Transducers
• Subjects: Diagonal mounting; Rotation angle; Stiffness ratio; COMSOL.
• Online Access: http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/february_2015/Vol_185/P_RP_0194.pdf

The paper reports about the design and stiffness analyses of communication mast’s diagonal mounting using COMSOL MultiPhysics v 4.2 a. This model presents the stiffness effect of a mast’s diagonal mounting for incessant communication. When operating under a given wind load at a specific location, the antenna’s total rotation angle should stay below a certain limit to ensure uninterrupted communications. For most of the masts being are exhibiting very low torsional stiffness that might be due to the geometry of the diagonal mountings. An attempt has been made to increase the stiffness of such a diagonal mounting by first analyzing a parameterized geometry followed by an updated geometry.