Density of material

The density is used to calculate the mass of the cable which is used for cable pulling calculations.

The sources are:

Metallic materials: engineeringtoolbox.com
Insulation materials: myelectrical.com (mean value)
Polyolefin insulation materials: lyondellbasell.com
High and extra-high temperature insulation materials EVA, SiR and ETFE, FEP, PTFE and PFA: Leoni LEOMER 'Insulation material properties'
PPLP: contains paper (0.85), PP (0.91) and oil/rosin (1.05) in case of mass impregnated HVDC cables so the value is expected to be around 0.9. In case of HVAC PPLP cables, which is not common anymore, mineral oil (0.88) is used and the value will be lower.
Compounded Jute: matbase.com
Butyl rubber: matbase.com
Silyl Terminated Polyether: buildside.com
Mass/Oil impregnated paper: acc. the book 'High Voltage Engineering' by F. Rizk (2014)
the insulation is made of kraft paper with 0.75 g/cm$^3$ and contains about 50% of the volume impregnating fluid. For oil impregnated (SCOF) cables mineral oil with 0.88 g/cm$^3$ is used and for mass impregnated oil/rosin with higher viscosity and 1.05 g/cm$^3$ is used.
PVC/Bitumen tapes: mean value between the density of bitumen with 1.06 g/cm$^3$ taken from benzeneinternational.com and PVC
Water-blocking tapes: scapa.com (mean value)
Paper: Cigré Guide 720 'Fire issues for insulated cables in air'
Aldrey (AL3): Value is taken from EN 50183 (2000).
Bronze: Cu with up to 3% alloy of Mg (0.1 to 0.5%), Cd and Zn is used which is called 'Leitbronze' acc. to the book 'Kupfer und Kupferlegierungen in der Technik' by K. Dies (1967)

Note: Not all values listed below can be selected in the cable editor.

Symbol

$\zeta_M$

Unit

g/cm$^3$

Related

$M_{cable}$

Choices

Id	Value	Reference values
PVC	1.4
PE	0.93	0.919-0.940
sPVC	1.4	≈PVC
sPE	0.93	≈PE
LDPE	0.919	0.919-0.925
MDPE	0.926	0.926-0.940
HDPE	0.941	0.941-0.970
XLPE	0.923
XLPEf	0.93
PP	0.91
PPLP	0.9	50/50% paper/PP, paper 50% soaked oil/rosin
PUR	1.17
PS	1.05
PA	1.06
TPEE	1.17
STPe	1.56
TPEO	0.96
POC	1.4
PVDF	1.7
ETFE	1.7
EVA	1.25	0.955-1.40
XHF	1.372
HFS	1.425
FPE	0.65
FEP	2.14
PET	1.31
PFA	2.15
PTFE	2.15
HFFR	1.55
FRNC	1.56
NR	1.6
EPR	1.42
EPDM	1.42	≈EPR
CR	1.23
CSM	1.45
IIR	1.25	1.15-1.35
PIB	0.92
OilP	1.28	paper 50% soaked with mineral oil (0.88)
Mass	1.19	paper 50% soaked with oil/rosin (1.05)
CJ	1.28	60% jute + 40% PP
RSP	1.1
BIT	1.2
tape	0.34
SiR	1.25
fPOC	0.98	70% of POC
fPP	0.64	70% of PP
fPE	0.65	70% of PE
fPVC	0.98	70% of PVC
PRod	0.4
PTube	0.7
OilD	1.28	assuming similar to oil impregnated paper
Jute	1.53
TY	1.45
CW	1.37
Paper	0.85	0.8-0.9
Air	0.00115	at 35°C
Cu	8.94
Al	2.712
AL3	2.7
ENAW6060	2.7
Pb	11.34
Brz	8.91
CuSn	8.8
CuZn	8.55
Fe	7.87
S	7.85
SS	7.48
Zn	7.135
Ni	8.908

Image

Materials Engineering Science Processing and Design, Figure 2.9 - M. Ashby et al. (2007)