THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF CONDUCTORS AND FITTINGS Working Group B2.11 Temple of Aeolus, the ancient Greek God of winds, Athens, 4th century B.C. (picture courtesy Sakis Karagiorgas); insert: broken conductor due to fatigue caused by aeolian vibrations (picture courtesy Louis Cloutier)Copyright® 2oce “Tout detentour dune publication CIGRE sur support papier ou électronique nen posse qu'un droit ‘usage. Sontintrates, saul accord express du CIGRE, a reproduction toale ou partielle autre qu’s Usage personnel et privé, ef toute mise & ispostion de Vers, dont a dfusion sur un réseau invanet fu un réseau dentreprise ‘Copyngnt © 2002 ‘Ownership of @ CIGRE publication, whethar in paper frm or on electronic support only infers right of tse for personal purposes. Are prohibied, except exploty agreed by CIGRE, total or partial reproduction of the publeatio for use other than personal and transier to a third party; hence ‘irulaion on any nvanet or oer company network fs forbiddenCONTENTS. WG B2.11 a ‘A word from the convenor Et 2 WG11 Thematic Brochure Introduction aa 3 ELECTRA papers 1967 ~ 2003 a = 4 ‘Synthesis of ELECTRA Papers 1967 - 2003 aE cece 5 ‘Appendix 1: A brief history of WGs 01 & WGO4 6 ‘Appendix 2: The Chronology of WG11 (1988 — 2003) Electra No. | Author(s) Title Pee eee eee 12 AT. Edwards Conductor galloping A practical method of conductor creep at wee determination 62 SC 22/1EEE Guide on conductor self-damping measurements Recommendations for the evaluation of the lifetime $ Welt of transmission line conductors 75 WG 05 Permanent elongation of conductors Guide on the measurement of the performance of 76 SC72/IEEE Aeolian vibration dampers for single conductors The behaviour of spacerless bundles. Attraction 7 P.H.Lepers, J-LLilien | ang release values arising from high load currents Fad The behaviour of spacerless bundles due to high 90 em sttiien | lad currents. Experimental results and theoretical eperst Lies calculations. ay RAR. Gibbon, P.H. Juul, | Damage to overhead lines caused by conductor HB. White, W.J. Wiker | galloping Guide for endurance tests of conductors inside 400 WG 04 sane ‘Analysis of the responses to the questionnaire on 109 we stringing problems Retrospective view at the efforts made to solve the 120 W. Buckner problem of Aeolian conductor vibrations on overhead transmission lines 123 WG 01 z Guide on the use of bolted suspension clamps 124 WG 01 Report on Aeolian vibration WG11/TFO3 Results of the questionnaire on interphase spacers Field observations of overhead line galloping a neat Galloping reporting forms