// A Texbook on POWER SYSTEM ENGINEERING // A.Chakrabarti, M.L.Soni, P.V.Gupta, U.S.Bhatnagar // DHANPAT RAI & Co. // SECOND EDITION // PART II : TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION // CHAPTER 2: CONSTANTS OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES // EXAMPLE : 2.8 : // Page number 104-105 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data n = 7.0 // Number of strands r = 1.0 // Radius of each conductor. Assume it 1 for calculation purpose // Calculations D_1_2 = 2.0*r // Distance between conductor 1 & 2 D_1_6 = 2.0*r // Distance between conductor 1 & 6 D_1_7 = 2.0*r // Distance between conductor 1 & 7 D_3_4 = 2.0*r // Distance between conductor 3 & 4 D_1_4 = 4.0*r // Distance between conductor 1 & 4 D_1_3 = (D_1_4**2-D_3_4**2)**(1.0/2) // Distance between conductor 1 & 3 D_1_5 = D_1_3 // Distance between conductor 1 & 5 GMR = 0.7788*r // GMR n_o = n-1 // Number of outside strands D_s = (GMR**n*(D_1_2**2*D_1_3**2*D_1_4*D_1_7)**6*(2*r)**n_o)**(1.0/49) // GMR overall_radius = 3*r // Overall conductor radius ratio = D_s/overall_radius // Ratio of GMR to overall conductor radius // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 2.8 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nGeometric mean radius of the conductor, D_s = %.3f*r", D_s) printf("\nRatio of GMR to overall conductor radius = %.4f ", ratio)