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Wind and Structures
  Volume 40, Number 2, February 2025 , pages 139-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2025.40.2.139
 


Ice-shedding jump height of uneven iced sub-conductors under varying wind load conditions
Mingfeng Huang, Changzheng Chi, Yi Gu, Yuelong Zhang and Zidi Zhu

 
Abstract
    Significant vertical displacement caused by ice shedding from conductors may increase the risk of electrical accidents such as flashover. Ice shedding often occurs with joint actions of wind, which affects the jump height of transmission lines. The shielding effect of bundled conductors leads to uneven ice accretion among sub-conductors, resulting in variations in the wind attack angle along the transmission line, which significantly influences on the wind load on the conductor. This paper firstly established a finite element model of a practical iced transmission line for dynamic response analysis of ice shedding. To accurately determine the wind load on bundled conductors, the aerodynamic force coefficients of the conductors were updated in real-time by extracting the torsion angle response. Parametric analysis was also conducted in detail to investigate the impact of uneven ice accretion among sub-conductors, ice thickness, and wind velocity on the iced-shedding jump height of the transmission line.
 
Key Words
    bundled conductors; ice shedding; jump height; transmission line; uneven ice accretion
 
Address
Mingfeng Huang:1)College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, 886 Yuhangtang Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
2)College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, 100 East Daxue Road, Xixiangtang District, Nanning, China

Changzheng Chi:College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, 886 Yuhangtang Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China

Yi Gu:China Energy Engineering Group Zhejiang Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd., 68 Gucui Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China

Yuelong Zhang:China Energy Engineering Group Zhejiang Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd., 68 Gucui Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China

Zidi Zhu:College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, 886 Yuhangtang Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
 

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