Quick Pole Verification

A software tool should be evaluated to see how it can address a wide range of wire attachment scenarios to provide clarity to its abilities. For Joint Use Distribution Pole Lines, the following variations are suggested:

• Wire attachments of different types (single material type and double material type), such as:
• Aluminum wires
• Copper wires
• Steel wires
• Combined Steel & Aluminum wires
• Various sizes of wires:
• Small
• Medium
• Large
• Various span lengths
• 40 meters
• 80 meters
• 120 meters

The following wires were chosen for this evaluation:

All of the above variations should be tested under level span conditions with wind (if applicable) applied at 90 degrees to the span. Both the maximum tension and the maximum sag should be extracted from these results and compared to the baseline.

Now you can determine:

• The Horizontal guy-able load
• The Vertical load
• The Lateral load due to wind (if any).
• The Tension at each pole

Level Span Tests

Here are the Test Results from Quick Pole and the required comparison with PLS-CADD:

Download the Quick Pole project file to duplicate the results shown above.