The Stockbridge Damper as a Continuous Hysteric System in Single Overhead Transmission Lines

2002 i Acknowledgements I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude and profound thanks to Professor Peter Hagedorn, for his keen interest and guidance. His constant encouragement and perseverance were constant sources of inspiration for me. I am also greatly indebted to Professor Yogesh M. Desai for his invaluable guidance at the beginning of the project and his constant encouragement and inspiration throughout the course of this work. I owe my sincere thanks to Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Sauter for giving me the confidence to work with Stockbridge dampers and for his invaluable help for the successful completion of this project. I am also grateful to Mr. H. for helping me to learn about the conductor motions. Thanks are also due to all members of the dynamics group from Department of Applied Mechanics, TU-Darmstadt, for their cooperation and friendliness during my stay in Germany. I also gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) during the course of this project in Germany. Further, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my teachers for sharing their knowledge with me and also would like to specially thank all my friends for the moral support they provided. Last but not the least, I dedicate this thesis to my father Mr.Surendra Kumar Verma and mother Mrs.Shashi Verma, who are my constant source of inspiration and without whom it would have not been possible to make this project a success.