Mobile communication that most people are using today as communication means, are available due to the Base Transfer Stations which mobile communication companies installed on the top of buildings or mountains. Antennas and network equipments usually ...
Mobile communication that most people are using today as communication means, are available due to the Base Transfer Stations which mobile communication companies installed on the top of buildings or mountains. Antennas and network equipments usually installed outside are under restrictions of space and can be easily damaged by external natural harassments.
In order to minimize the loss of life from malfunctions or misbehavers of the network equipments from the earthquake, the structural stability of the network equipments should be secured.
The purpose of this thesis is to check the structural safety of the network equipments by performing the static and dynamic finite element analysis. First, the accurate finite element model is constructed since the accuracy of the analysis results depends on the accuracy of the model. For this, the stiffness of electric modules are adjusted manually. Then, the stress and displacement of structures are evaluated by the static method and results are checked whether to satisfy the design requirement conditions. The deformation and stress are all satisfied and the accuracy of the finite element model could be acceptable.
By performing frequency dynamic analysis, computed natural frequencies are similar to the results of experiment. So the model could be used for the response spectrum analysis where experimental acceleration value at each frequency are used as seismic input excitation. It is shown that the analysis results are a little bit larger than that of the experimental values. Also sensitivity analysis for the natural frequency and optimization are performed where design variables are the stiffness of the beam and plate compartments. The first natural frequency is very sensitive to the stiffness as shown in the results.
Through the thesis, it is shown that the stability of network equipment structures can be confirmed by the finite element method, sensitivity analysis and optimization. And the most important thing is how to construct the correct finite element model to match the real physical model and experimental results, and such work is processed in this thesis.