Abstract
Some strands of composite fiber-optic ground wire (OPGW) are sometimes melted and broken by high-energy lightning strikes. DC arc tests simulating lightning strikes have been performed to obtain the melting and breaking characteristics of OPGW strands. The tests have to be performed under many conditions concerning the arc (e.g., current, duration, polarity, gap length) and the OPGW (e.g., size, type, and number of strands) to clarify the melting and breaking characteristics of the strands. In this paper, the calculations regarding the melting characteristics of strands are performed considering the transferred heat and its area from the arc to the strands under the aforementioned conditions. The melting characteristics of strands are calculated with an arc current of 1-100 kA considering the measured current of actual lightning. The calculation results of the strand melting duration depending on arc current show good agreement with the experimental values obtained in dc arc tests.
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