Abstract
This brochure is a companion of the former one
published in 1996 by CIGRE (N°105) "The
mechanical effects of short-circuit currents in openair
substations". That brochure had been a revision
of another brochure written in 1987 under the
leadership of Zbigniew Nartowski (Energoprojekt,
Cracow) the former chairman of the CIGRE
working group dealing with that subject. Many
ideas and proposal had already been described in
the original 1987 brochure.
In 1992 CIGRE SC23 decided to restart the activity
in short-circuit mechanical effects in open-air
substations. This was due to the increase of
knowledge on that field, especially to the impact of
structural dynamics on these effects on design. In
fact electromagnetic forces induced large
displacement and dynamic behaviour of cables and
supports.
The first step , published in 1996 (CIGRE thematic
brochure N°105), concerned simplified methods.
Brochure I 05 explains the background of IEC
60865-1 and gives access to a data base of 40 shortcircuit
tests performed in the world, with datas and
oscillogramms.
In the past only the static behaviour of the support
has been taken into account. Recent development
concerns a more comprehensive approach of bundle
pinch effect, dropper stretch and other features and
their true impact on design as dynamic loading.
Actual IEC 60865 (part I and 2) helps the designer
to define maximum loads and minimum clearances
which have to be taken into account as static load
and distances for design. Some of the existing
methods are either too conservative or, rarely, in the
opposite site.
This brochure will detail why and how to go further
in these methods. Moreover, there is no actual IEC
recommendations for short-circuit mechanical loads
on apparatuses which are connected to the main bus
by slack cable. Some hypothesis of actual IEC rules
like neglecting the reclosure in flexible busbars will
be analysed in more details on the base of actual
full scale tests.
Advanced methods will be shortly presented as well
as an introduction to probabilistic approach.
Moreover D.C. configurations are treated in details.
This brochure has been written by the members of
the CIGRE ESCC (effects of short-circuit current)
task force and revised by WG 23-03 (chairman Pr.
Bohme (ABB. Heidelberg), followed recently by
Anne-Marie Sahazizian from Ontario Hydro,
Canada) and SC 23 of CIGRE. Many members of
this CIGRE activity are also members of IEC TC73
as well as CIGRE SC23 and. D. Tsanakas (Univ.
Thrace, Greece) was our official liaison to both
SC23 and IEC TC73 as member and convener of
WG2 "short-circuit effects".
It will follow the main chapters of the former
brochure.
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