Limit cycle bifurcations in the in-plane galloping of iced transmission line

In this paper, we establish a mathematical model to describe in-plane galloping of iced transmission line with geometrical and aerodynamical nonlinearities using Hamilton principle. After Galerkin Discretization, we get a two-dimensional ordinary differential equations system, further, a near Hamiltonian system is obtained by rescaling. By calculating the coefficients of the first order Melnikov function or the Abelian integral of the near-Hamiltonian system, the number of limit cycles and their locations are obtained. We demonstrate that this model can have at least 3 limit cycles in some wind velocity. Moreover, some numerical simulations are conducted to verify the theoretical results.