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Did You Know?

Fixing Collar

• Critical busbar vibration is one of the first root cause of connector’s

failure in Air Insulated Substations
Upper Cap
• There are critical cases where damping cable systems are ineffi-
Upper Rubberized cient (own frequency below 4Hz).
Stop
• Low own frequencies of a busbar system depends on combination
of several factors as, long span, large size of tubes, inappropriate
Guide busbar connectors, topographic situation of the switchyard, low and
continuous wind speed...
Mass “m” (kg)

Synthetic Bearing
• Audible noise can be generated by the damping stranded conduc-
tor inside the tube which may be not acceptable in some location
(urbanized areas, wildlife disturbance…) .
Spring “k” (N/m)
• AMORSIM damper by TE is an efficient damping product adapted
Lower Rubberized to critical vibration situations. AMORSIM damper is a proven solu-
Stop tion with now more than 20 years experience on the field.

Lower Cap

AMORSIM Damper

Design to Customer

• We collect the data of the actual busbar systems configurations (Span length,
tube characteristics, boundary conditions….).

• We run a calculation by FEM in a dynamic mode to calculate the first own fre-
quencies of each configuration to confirm if of the studied cases are critical.

• Own frequencies of a busbar from 2 to 4Hz can be critical and below 2Hz are
considered as highly critical.

• We defined the damping characteristics and parameters of the AMORSIM damp-

ers (mass and spring stiffness)
Calculation by FEM of the own
• We indicate the most appropriate position of the AMORSIM damper on each span frequencies (Dynamic mode)
(where the vibration amplitude is the largest).

• End free of the conductor advantageously located at the Sliding connector/

support side.

Dead weight (Pantograph connector)

Output calculation summary sheet