US3842185A - Aluminium alloy conductor wire - Google Patents

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US3842185A
US3842185A US00420592A US42059273A US3842185A US 3842185 A US3842185 A US 3842185A US 00420592 A US00420592 A US 00420592A US 42059273 A US42059273 A US 42059273A US 3842185 A US3842185 A US 3842185A
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    • H01B5/08—Several wires or the like stranded in the form of a rope
    • H01B5/10—Several wires or the like stranded in the form of a rope stranded around a space, insulating material, or dissimilar conducting material
    • H01B5/102—Several wires or the like stranded in the form of a rope stranded around a space, insulating material, or dissimilar conducting material stranded around a high tensile strength core
    • H01B5/104—Several wires or the like stranded in the form of a rope stranded around a space, insulating material, or dissimilar conducting material stranded around a high tensile strength core composed of metallic wires, e.g. steel wires
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    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
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  • An aluminium alloy conductor wire consists of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium, between 0.3 and 1.0 (preferably 0.4 to 0.6) weight percent iron, between 0.08 and 1.0 (preferably 0.2 to 0.4) weight percent copper, a maximum of 0.15 (preferably 0.05 to 0.08) weight percent silicon, and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • the conductor wire is especially suitable for use as a conductor of a telecommunication cable or as a component element of an overhead electric conductor.
  • our improved conductor wire is composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of betwen 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium, between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron; between 0.08 and 1.0 weight percent copper; at maximum of 0.15 weight percent silicon; and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • the copper content of the aluminium alloy preferably lies in the range 0.2 to 0.4 weight percent.
  • the iron content lies in the range 0.40 to 0.60 weight percent and the silicon content lies in the range 0.05 to 0.08 weight percent.
  • a conductor wire in accordance with the present in-v vention has significantly improved tensile strength as compared with that of conductor wires of the same diameter of known aluminium alloys containing similar quantities of iron but only a trace quantity of copper and the improved tensile properties of our improved conductor wire are illustrated by the following results achieved with a conductor wire of a known aluminium alloy (Alloy A) having a diameter of 0.5 mm and with conductor wire in accordance with the present invention (Alloys B, C, D and E) of the same diameter, as
  • conductor wires of the present invention show a slight loss in electrical conductivity as compared with a conductor wire of a known aluminium alloy containing a similar quantity of iron and only a trace quantity of copper, i.e., approximately 0.001 weight percent
  • the improvement in tensile strength for a given elongation renders our im proved conductor wires especially suitable for use in telephone cables and in other cables where a high tcnsile strength is desirable and a high electrical conductivity is not of primary importance.
  • conductor wires in accordance with the present invention especially those of an aluminium alloy having a copper content in an upper region of the quoted range, display relatively high tensile strength even in the fully annealed condition.
  • unannealed conductor wires of the present invention are especially suitable for use in overhead electric conductors where tensile strength is a primary consideration.
  • the conductor wire of the present invention may be prepared by any of the known processes for preparing aluminium alloy wire but we prefer to prepare our improved conductor wire by continuously casting a bar of our aluminium alloy and immediately rolling the bar down to rod form, subsequently drawing the rod to the required wire size and finally annealing the wire.
  • the invention also includes an electric insulated wire comprising a conductor wire as hereinbefore defined provided with at least one covering layer of insulating material, for instance an extruded layerof plastics insulating material, and the invention further includes an electric cable comprising at least one insulated conductor comprising a plurality of conductor wires as hereinbefore defined and, enclosing the insulated conductor or conductors, an outer protective sheath.
  • the invention further includes a telecommunication cable comprising a multiplicity of insulated conductors, each conductor comprising a conductor wire as hereinbefore defined.
  • the conductors may be insulated with solid or cellular plastics material and the interstices between the insulated conductors and between them and a surrounding water-proof sheath from end to end of the cable length may be filled with a waterimpermeable medium of a grease-like nature.
  • the invention still further includes an overhead electric conductor comprising at least one'conductor wire as hereinbefore defined.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional end view of the telecommunication cable
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional'end view of the overhead electric conductor.
  • the telecommunication cableshown in FIG. 1 comprises twenty-five pairs ofv insulated conductors each consisting of an aluminium alloy wire 1 of diameter 0.50 mm and an insulating covering 2 of extruded cellular polyethylene of radial thickness 0.014 mm.
  • the aluminium alloy of each wire 1 consists of 99.0 weight percent aluminium 0.59 weight percent iron; 0.32 weight percent copper; 0.07 weight percent silicon and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • Wire 1 has an electrical conductivity of 60.7 percent lACS, a 0.1 percent proof stress of 90 MN/m a tensile strength of 138 MN/m and elongation on 250 mm of 16.9 percent.
  • the assembly of insulated conductors is surrounded by a longitudinally applied, transversely folded polyester tape 4, a longitudinally applied, transversely folded aluminium tape 5 and an extruded polyethylene sheath 6.
  • the interstices between the insulated conductors and between the insulated conductors and the polyester tape 4 are filled with a water-impermeable medium 3 comprising highly refined petroleum jelly.
  • the overhead electric conductor shown in FIG. 2 is of overall diameter 42.5 mm and comprises a stranded core 11 of seven steel wires each of diameter 4.72 mm which is surrounded by three stranded layers 12, 13 and 14 of round aluminium alloy wires 15 of diameter 4.72 mm, the direction of lay of the wires of each layer being opposite to that of the wires in the or each adjacent layer.
  • the aluminium alloy of each wire 15 consists of 99.14 weight percent aluminium; 0.5-weight percent iron; 0.3 weight percent copper; 0.06 weight percent silicon and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • a conductor wire composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium; between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron; between 0.08 and 1.0 weight percent copper; a maximum of 0.15 weight percent silicon; and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • a conductor wire composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron, between 0.2 and 0.4 weight percent copper; a maximum of 0.15 weight percent silicon and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • a conductor wire as claimed in claim 1 which has at least one covering layer of insulating material.
  • An electric cable comprising at least one conductor comprising a plurality of conductor wires, each conductor wire being composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium; between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron; between 0.08 and 1.0'weight percent copper; a maximum of 0.15 weight percent silicon; and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • a telecommunication cable comprising a multiplicity of insulated conductors, each conductor comprising a wire composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium; between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron; between 0.08 and 1.0 weight percent copper; a maximum of 0.15 weight percent silicon; and trace quantities of conventional impurities.
  • a telecommunication cable comprising a multiplicity of insulated conductors, each conductor comprising a wire composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium; between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron; between 0.08 and 1.0 weight percent copper; a maximum of 0. 15 weight percent silicon; and trace quantities of conventional impurities, a water-proof sheath enclosing the insulated conductors and, filling the interstices between these insulated conductors and between them and the cable sheath from end to end of the cable length, a water-impermeable medium of greaselike nature.
  • An overhead electric conductor comprising at least one stranded layer of wires, wherein at least some of the wires are composed of an aluminium alloy conwires each composed of an aluminium alloy consisting of between 98.0 and 99.5 weight percent aluminium; between 0.3 and 1.0 weight percent iron; between 0.08 and 1.0 weight percent copper; a maximum of 0.15 weight percent silicon; and trace quantities of conventional impurities.

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