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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TRENDS IN ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ICEST-24), Venice, Italy, 5 - 06 September 2024, pp.1-9, (Full Text)
In greenhouses, prestressed reinforced concrete poles have been started to be used as an alternative to steel constructions to meet the wind load, as well as to carry the fruit and vegetables, the net that is the top cover, and the loads that will occur due to precipitation Due to the prestressed, high carbon, and steel braided inner cores in their cross-sections, these poles outperform reinforced concrete columns in terms of tensile and bending strength. In this paper, experimental tests of optimally designed concrete poles are presented. For this purpose, six concrete poles are tested under horizontal tensile force, inclined tensile force, and bending to determine the ultimate load-carrying capacities of prestressed concrete poles. The tested pole specimens are designed by using one of the recent stochastic search techniques. The design constraints are respectively implemented from 13031-1 (Greenhouses - Design and Construction) and EN 1992-1-1 (Eurocode 2: Design of Concrete Structures) specifications.