INSULATOR SWING CALCULATION

Input Parameters (in Blue) OUTPUT

Wind pressure on conductor, Pc (N/m2) 879.657

Wind pressure on insulator, Pi (N/m2) 0.000
Weight span affecting the insulator string, Lwt (m) 275.000
Wind span affecting insulator string, Lw (m) 440.000

Conductor Properties:
Diameter, dc (mm) 27.730
Ice thickness, ti (mm) 0.000
3
Density of the ice, ρi (kg/m ) 1,000.000
Overall conductor diamter, D (m) 0.02773
Unit weight of the conductor, wc (N/m) 15.102
Effective unit conductor weight, wc-eff (N/m) 15.102
Conductor deviation angle, θ (degrees) 0.000

Insulator Properties:
Weight of insulator string, Wi (N) 754.131
Diameter, di (mm) 280.000
Length of insulator string, li (m) 5.890
2
Projected area of insulator string, Ai (m ) 1.649

Horizontal component of conductor tension, H (N) 45,830.000

Total Loads on Insulator Causing Swing

Total Horizontal Load, [HT = Fi + Fc + Ftrans] (N) 10,732.865
Wind load on insulator string, [Fi = (0.5 * Pi * Ai)] (N) 0.000
Wind load on insulator string from conductor [Fc = Pc*dc*Lw] (N) 10,732.865
Transverse component of conductor tension [Ftrans = 2*H*SIN(θ/2)] (N) 0.000

Total Vertical Load, [VT = 0.5*Wi + Wc] (N) 4,530.182

Aggregated weight of conductor, [Wc = wc-eff * Lwt ] (N) 4,153.116
Aggregated insulator weight affecting swing, [0.5 * Wi] (N) 377.066

Factor, B = [HT / VT] 2.369

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Calculated insulator swing angle, ɸ [=tan (B)] degrees 67.000