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Session Overview
Session
B2-1: Transmission Tower Innovations and Engineering Challenges
Time:
Monday, 29/Sept/2025:
8:00am - 10:30am

Location: Room 520AD

Session Topics:
B2 Overhead lines

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Presentations
8:00am - 8:15am

Optimization of Cross-rope due to servitude restrictions

Suren Natesan1, Jose Diez Serrano2

1NTCSA, South Africa; 2enginering consultant



8:15am - 8:30am

Increasing the strength of steel tower materials by attaching Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics(C-FRPs)

Yohei Tomono1, Kohei Ishikawa1, Yuta Yamamoto1, Ryo Yuzawa1, Takeshi Nakamura2, Tomohiro Ishida2

1Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc., Japan; 2TOMOE Corporation, Japan



8:30am - 8:45am

Research On Intelligent Transmission Line Tower Lifting And Disassembling Construction Equipment Based On Multi-Modal Data Fusion

Xiangbiao LENG1, Jing LENG2, Haixiang YU1, Zijie ZHENG2, Li QIN3, Yuge XU2, Wenxiao ZHOU3, Linjun ZHENG3, Sihan CHE4, Jiang BIAN1

1China Southern Power Grid Energy Development Research Institute Co., Ltd.; 2South China University of Technology; 3Guangdong Power Grid Energy Development Co., Ltd.; 4Northeast Electric Power University



8:45am - 9:00am

Design of Outrigger Pads for Safe Operation of Mobile Plant used for Overhead Line Maintenance

Jodie Mann1, Nisha Ravindradevan1, Dongu Li1, John McCormack1, Peter Mitchell2

1Transgrid, Australia; 2Aurecon



9:00am - 9:15am

An Overview of the Evolution of Overhead Power Line Crossing Systems in South Africa

Shaina Grant, Bertie Jacobs

Eskom NTCSA (National Transmission Company South Africa), South Africa



9:15am - 9:30am

Parallel Giants: The Twin Steel poles in Heart of National Capital Region

Shrikant G. GAJBHE, Nitesh Kumar SINHA, Manoj Kumar Singh, Abhay Kumar, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, India



9:30am - 9:45am

Evaluation of Stresses in Critical Members of Transmission Line Towers During Prototype Testing Using Wired and Wireless Strain Gauges

INDRA SINGH ROURIYA, Satish Kumar, Nitesh Kumar SINHA, Raj Kumar Singh, Abhay Kumar, Vamsi Rama Mohan BURRA

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, India



9:45am - 10:00am

Novel Aluminium Connections: Structural Behavior and Application in Transmission Towers

Sima Soltaniazar, Marc Demers, Alex Loignon, Ali Davaran, Charles-Philippe Lamarche, Sébastien Langlois, Alain Desrochers

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada



10:00am - 10:15am

Innovative Steel tubular Pole-Lifting Techniques: Addressing Clearance Violations in Transmission Lines

Tirthak Shah, Benjamin Kebernik, Nathan Stahl

Ampjack Industries Ltd, Canada



10:15am - 10:30am

Design Philosophy on Uprating/Upgrading of Ground wires on Transmission Lines

Chandresh Juggernath, Gino Pillay, Ameeth Nathoo

National Transmission Company South Africa, South Africa