NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES - NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Overhead transmission lines are periodically inspected using both on-ground and helicopter-aided visual inspection. Factors including sun glare, cloud cover, close proximity to power lines and the rapidly changing visual circumstances make airborne inspection of power lines a particularly hazardous task. In this study, a finite element model is developed that can be used to create the theoretical dispersion curves of an overhead transmission line. The numerical results are then verified with experimental test using a non-contact and broadband laser detection technique. The methodology developed in this study can be further extended to a continuous monitoring system and be applied to other cable monitoring applications, such as bridge cable monitoring, which would otherwise put human inspectors at risk. 2009 American Institute of Physics.

name of conference

  • REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

published proceedings

  • REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION, VOLS 28A AND 28B

author list (cited authors)

  • Kulkarni, S., & Hurlebaus, S.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Kulkarni, S||Hurlebaus, S

publication date

  • March 2009

publisher

  • AIP  Publisher