Vibration and fatigue in electrical conductors

VIBRATION in electrical conductors is discussed in this paper. Stress is placed upon the necessity for the development of some new types of conductor which will, because of their shape or some inherent quality, resist more successfully than standard sections, the tendency to vibrate and the tendency to fail because of resulting fatigue. A number of appliances have been put forward from time to time which tend to reduce the amount of vibration ordinarily observed in a span. They are usually called dampers. However, there has been very little work done in the study of preventives.