Recent development of fiber reinforced polymer composite towers - A comprehensive review

Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite (FRP) materials were used first for military purpose and later widely-used in the various sectors such as aerospace, automobile, mechanical, biomedical, marine, chemical, sports and recreation, construction and energy. FRP is an emerging alternative material to replace steel in conventional transmission towers due to having special characteristics such as corrosive resistance, non-conductive, light weight and high tensile strength. This paper presents a review of articles published on various works carried out using FRP composite materials in tower structures around the world; understand the recent development and new technologies adopted, behavioral performances of the structural parts of the tower structures and how they were faced challenges carried out in the recent decades. This study provides a detailed discussion on recent development and techniques utilized in tower structures, structural behavior of the tower structures and numerical and experimental investigations on various composite materials.