Numerical Algorithms for the Analysis of Initial Configuration in a Railway Catenary Structure and Its Code Implementation: A Software Tool CALPE

Table 4

Length of the droppers and comparison results, reference [4], without presage.

	Dropper 1	Dropper 2	Dropper 3	Dropper 4	Dropper 5
	(m)	(m)	(m)	(m)	(m)
Cho et al. [4], method 1	0.876	0.740	0.637	0.569	0.535
Cho et al. [4], method 2	0.875	0.738	0.636	0.567	0.533
Present work, method 1	0.87606	0.73929	0.63671	0.56833	0.53414
Present work, method 2	0.87607	0.73930	0.63673	0.56834	0.53415