Experimental investigation and theoretical analysis on galloping of iced conductors

The aerodynamic forces of two typical iced conductor models are obtained by high frequency balance technique in wind tunnel test. The effects of wind directions and turbulence intensity on aerodynamic forces coefficients are discussed. An analytical expression for predicting the galloping instability trends in arbitrary directions is derived. An aerodynamic model considering the dynamic swing is developed according to the quasi-steady theory. Galerkin's procedure is employed to discrete the governing equations of transmission line, which is modeled as a suspended homogeneous elastic cable having a small equilibrium curvature and neglecting the shear deformation. The forth order Runge-Kutta method are applied to obtained the approximate numerical results of iced transmission line galloping.