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TECHNICAL IEC
REPORT – TYPE 3 TR 61597
First edition
1995-05

Overhead electrical conductors –

Calculation methods for stranded
bare conductors

This English-language version is derived from the original

bilingual publication by leaving out all French-language
pages. Missing page numbers correspond to the French-
language pages.

Reference number
IEC/TR 61597:1995(E)
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TECHNICAL IEC
REPORT – TYPE 3 TR 61597
First edition
1995-05

Overhead electrical conductors –

Calculation methods for stranded
bare conductors

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CONTENTS

Page

FOREWORD 7

Clause

Scope 11

2 Symbols and abbreviations 11

2.1 Symbols and units 11

2.2 Abbreviations 15

3 Current carrying capacity 15

3.1 General 15
3.2 Heat balance equation 15
3.3 Calculation method 15
3.4 Joule effect 17
3.5 Solar heat gain 17
3.6 Radiated heat loss 17
3.7 Convection heat loss 17
3.8 Method to calculate current carrying capacity (CCC) 19
3.9 Determination of the maximum permissible aluminium temperature 19
3.10 Calculated values of current carrying capacity 19

4 Alternating current resistance, inductive and capacitive reactances 21

4.1 General 21
4.2 Alternating current (AC) resistance 21
4.3 Inductive reactance 23
4.4 Capacitive reactance 27
4.5 Table of properties 27

5 Elongation of stranded conductors 27

5.1 General 27
5.2 Thermal elongation 29
5.3 Stress-strain properties 33
5.4 Assessment of final elastic modulus 35

6 Conductor creep 41

6.1 General 41
6.2 Creep of single wires 41
6.3 Total conductor creep 43
6.4 Prediction of conductor creep 45
6.5 Creep values 45
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Clause Page

7 Loss of strength 47

8 Calculation of maximum conductor length on drums 49

8.1 Basis of calculation 49

8.2 Packing factor 51
8.3 Space between last conductor layer and lagging 53
8.4 Numerical example 53

Annexes

A Current carrying capacity 55

B Resistance, inductive and capacitive reactance of conductors 69

C Bibliography 85
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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION

OVERHEAD ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS -

CALCULATION METHODS FOR STRANDED
BARE CONDUCTORS

FOREWORD

1) The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) is a worldwide organization for standardization

comprising all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of the IEC is to
promote international cooperation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and
electronic fields. To this end and in addition to other activities, the IEC publishes International Standards.
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Standards transparently to the maximum extent possible in their national and regional standards. Any
divergence between the IEC Standard and the corresponding national or regional standard shall be clearly
indicated in the latter.

The main task of IEC technical committees is to prepare International Standards. In

exceptional circumstances, a technical committee may propose the publication of a technical
repo rt of one of the following types:

• type 1, when the required support cannot be obtained for the publication of an
International Standard, despite repeated efforts;
• type 2, when the subject is still under technical development or where for any
other reason there is the future but not immediate possibility of an agreement on an
International Standard;

• type 3, when a technical committee has collected data of a different kind from that
which is normally published as an International Standard, for example "state of the a rt".

Technical reports of types 1 and 2 are subject to review within three years of publication to
decide whether they can be transformed into International Standards. Technical repo rt s of
type 3 do not necessarily have to be reviewed until the data they provide are considered
to be no longer valid or useful.

IEC 1597, which is a technical repo rt of type 3, has been prepared by IEC technical
committee 7: Overhead electrical conductors.
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The text of this technical report is based on the following documents:

Committee draft Report on voting

7(SEC)466 7(SEC)471

Full information on the voting for the approval of this technical repo rt can be found in the
repo rt on voting indicated in the above table.

This technical repo rt is an informative companion to IEC 1089: Round wire concentric lay
overhead electrical conductors.

This document is a Technical Repo rt of type 3. It is intended to provide additional

technical information on conductors specified in IEC 1089.

Various conductor properties and calculation methods are given in this document. These
are normally found in a number of references, but rarely condensed in a single document.

It is noted that all definitions given in IEC 1089 apply equally to this document.

Annexes A, B and C are for information only.

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CALCULATION METHODS FOR STRANDED
BARE CONDUCTORS

1 Scope

This document provides information with regard to conductors specified in IEC 1089. Such
information includes properties of conductors and useful methods of calculation.

The following chapters are included in this document:

- current carrying capacity of conductors: Calculation method and typical example

- alternating current resistance, inductive and capacitive reactances
- elongation of conductors: Thermal and stress-strain data
- conductor creep
- loss of strength of aluminium wires due to high temperatures
- calculation of maximum conductor length in a drum

It is noted that this document does not discuss all theories and available methods for
calculating conductor properties, but provides users with simple methods that provide
acceptable accuracies.

2 Symbols and abbreviations

2.1 Symbols and units

A cross-sectional area of the conductor (mm2)
Aa aluminium wires
AS steel wires
B Internal width of a drum (m)
D conductor diameter (m)
d1, d2 outside and inside diameter of a drum (m)
E modulus of elasticity of complete conductor (MPa)
aluminium wires
Ea
E steel wires
f frequency (Hz)
F tensile force in the complete conductor (kN)
Fa in the aluminium wires
FS in steel wires
conductor current (A)
relative rigidity of steel to aluminum wires
Kccreep coefficient
Keemissivity coefficient in respect to black body