Investigation and Development of a Three-Dimensional Transmission Tower-Line System Model Using Nonlinear Truss and Elastic Catenary Elements for Wind Loading Dynamic Simulation

Table 3

Conductor middle position displacement RMSE between each model and the elastic catenary model under El-Centro earthquake loading.

	Transmission model
	SAP2000	ANSYS auto-gravimetric	Calibrated nonlinear truss	LS-DYNA
Y direction (%)	0.25	10.89	3.50	67.54
Z direction (%)	0.13	1.64	0.17	78.78