A Study on the Site Vibration for the Breakage Analysis of Glass Insulators on the High-Speed Railway

This paper has investigated the possibility of glass insulator breakage by resonance and accelerated degradation based on an analysis of natural frequency characteristics of glass insulators on the KTX overhead line and behavioral characteristics of the overhead line on site. The natural frequencies were formed within the range of 10 kHz, and the largest amplitude was observed at 5.15 kHz. The largest frequency that was imposed on strut tube glass insulators was 80 Hz with 1.13 g of vertical vibration in the viaduct section, the largest vertical vibration (0.38 g) was detected at 103 Hz in the open route section. When site frequency and natural frequency of strut tube glass insulators were compared in terms of characteristics, the resonance was not the same. In both the viaduct and open route sections, it seems that the impact by vertical vibration in strut tube glass insulators is large. Through this study, therefore, it has been confirmed that the failure of the glass insulator has nothing to do with resonance. In addition, no damage was detected in the accelerated degradation test.