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    This document discusses numerical sag-tension calculations for overhead power lines. It can model the complex stress-strain behavior of conductors like ACSR, accounting for temperature, elastic, and plastic effects. Stress-strain curves show the relationship between tension and elongation for conductors. They illustrate that conductors are plastic and do not fully return to their initial length when tension is removed. Numerical calculations can determine both initial and final sag-tension conditions more accurately than older graphic methods.

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    This document discusses numerical sag-tension calculations for overhead power lines. It can model the complex stress-strain behavior of conductors like ACSR, accounting for temperature, elastic, and plastic effects. Stress-strain curves show the relationship between tension and elongation for conductors. They illustrate that conductors are plastic and do not fully return to their initial length when tension is removed. Numerical calculations can determine both initial and final sag-tension conditions more accurately than older graphic methods.

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    This document discusses numerical sag-tension calculations for overhead power lines. It can model the complex stress-strain behavior of conductors like ACSR, accounting for temperature, elastic, and plastic effects. Stress-strain curves show the relationship between tension and elongation for conductors. They illustrate that conductors are plastic and do not fully return to their initial length when tension is removed. Numerical calculations can determine both initial and final sag-tension conditions more accurately than older graphic methods.

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    13000

    12500 12,275 Ibs


    12000

    Tension, Ibs
    Catenary
    11500
    Elastic
    11000
    10500
    10000
    9500
    9000
    0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
    Slack / Elongation, ft

    FIGURE 14.6 Sag-tension solution for 600-ft span of Drake at 08F and 0.5 in. ice.

    The preceding approximate tension calculations could have been more accurate with the use of actual
    stress-strain curves and graphic sag-tension solutions, as described in detail in Graphic Method for Sag
    Tension Calculations for ACSR and Other Conductors (Aluminum Company of America, 1961). This
    method, although accurate, is very slow and has been replaced completely by computational methods.

    14.3 Numerical Sag-Tension Calculations


    Sag-tension calculations are normally done numerically and allow the user to enter many different
    loading and conductor temperature conditions. Both initial and final conditions are calculated and
    multiple tension constraints can be specified. The complex stress-strain behavior of ACSR-type con-
    ductors can be modeled numerically, including both temperature, and elastic and plastic effects.

    14.3.1 Stress-Strain Curves


    Stress-strain curves for bare overhead conductor include a minimum of an initial curve and a final curve
    over a range of elongations from 0 to 0.45%. For conductors consisting of two materials, an initial and
    final curve for each is included. Creep curves for various lengths of time are typically included as well.
    Overhead conductors are not purely elastic. They stretch with tension, but when the tension is
    reduced to zero, they do not return to their initial length. That is, conductors are plastic; the change
    in conductor length cannot be expressed with a simple linear equation, as for the preceding hand
    calculations. The permanent length increase that occurs in overhead conductors yields the difference in
    initial and final sag-tension data found in most computer programs.
    Figure 14.7 shows a typical stress-strain curve for a 26=7 ACSR conductor (Aluminum Association,
    1974); the curve is valid for conductor sizes ranging from 266.8 to 795 kcmil. A 795 kcmil-26=7 ACSR
    ‘‘Drake’’ conductor has a breaking strength of 31,500 lb (14,000 kg) and an area of 0.7264 in.2 (46.9
    mm2) so that it fails at an average stress of 43,000 psi (30 kg=mm2). The stress-strain curve illustrates
    that when the percent of elongation at a stress is equal to 50% of the conductor’s breaking strength
    (21,500 psi), the elongation is less than 0.3% or 1.8 ft (0.55 m) in a 600-ft (180 m) span.
    Note that the component curves for the steel core and the aluminum stranded outer layers are
    separated. This separation allows for changes in the relative curve locations as the temperature of the
    conductor changes.
    For the preceding example, with the Drake conductor at a tension of 6300 lb (2860 kg), the length
    of the conductor in the 600-ft (180 m) span was found to be 0.27 ft longer than the span. This
    tension corresponds to a stress of 8600 psi (6.05 kg=mm2). From the stress-strain curve in Fig. 14.7,
    this corresponds to an initial elongation of 0.105% (0.63 ft). As in the preceding hand calculation, if the
    conductor is reduced to zero tension, its unstressed length would be less than the span length.

    ß 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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