TY - CONF A1 - Stengel, Dominik A1 - Clobes, M. A1 - Thiele, K. T1 - Investigation on the dynamic behavior of an OHL conductor bundle with light and heavy ice accretion N2 - Under a variety of possible cable vibrations which overhead line conductors can suffer, galloping identifies by large amplitudes at rather low frequencies. Changes of the cross-section as by ice-accretion provide the basis for such vibrations through an aerodynamic instability of drag and lift responses under wind excitation. Two different types of light and heavy ice bodies attached to a quad bundle conductor are analysed in wind tunnel tests. The results of aerodynamic drag and lift coefficients are investigated by means of a finite element model under turbulent wind excitation. It was found that instability can be well simulated for the heavy ice accretion but not for the case of lightly iced conductors. T2 - 8th International Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications CY - Boston, MA, USA DA - 07.06.2016 KW - wind turbulence KW - overhead transmission line KW - bundle conductors KW - ice accretion KW - dynamic behaviour PY - 2016 SP - Paper 116, 1 EP - Paper 116, 8 AN - OPUS4-36554 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Stengel, Dominik A1 - Thiele, K. A1 - Clobes, M. A1 - Mehdianpour, Milad T1 - Aerodynamic damping of nonlinear movement of conductor cables in laminar and turbulent wind flow N2 - It is widely accepted that aerodynamic damping is a decisive parameter influencing the dynamic response of overhead transmission line conductors in turbulent wind flow. But anyway, methods of how to account for the effects of aerodynamic damping differ significantly and so might do the results. In this work, the source of aerodynamic damping shall be revised leading to the well-known formulation for a linear pendulum being the result of the relative velocity between the structure and wind flow. Based on wind tunnel tests and validated by simulations, the differences to a pendulum movement of a sagging cable are shown. The reasons for that deviation are the large deflections, resulting in a movement non parallel to the acting wind flow. For some analysis, in particular those in frequency domain, it is practically not possible to incorporate aerodynamic damping implicitly by fluid structure interaction. If the dynamic movement can be linearized at a working point of the mean deflection, a modification to the linear approach is suggested. This approach is validated by simulation with a finite element model of an existing overhead transmission line, calibrated with onsite measurements for wind velocities at lower levels. Further accent is put on the different possibilities to incorporate aerodynamic damping in time step analysis, such as Rayleigh damping or modal damping. The differences between both approaches are emphasized and modal damping is shown to be the most adequate representation of aerodynamic damping. T2 - ICWE14 - 14th International conference on wind engineering CY - Porto Alegre, Brazil DA - 21.06.2015 KW - Aerodynamic damping KW - Conductor cables KW - Overhead transmission lines KW - Wind tunnel experiments KW - Nonlinear finite element simulation PY - 2015 SN - 978-85-66094-07-7 SP - 1 EP - 9 AN - OPUS4-33612 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -