<p>Wind-induced vibrations pose a significant global challenge in the electric power transmission sector. The alternating shedding of Von Kármán vortices, resulting from airflow around overhead power cables, induces oscillations that can lead to cable failure due to fatigue, if they are not properly understood and controlled. In this context, it is of special concern the ability to predict the dynamic behavior of these cables, which are systems with high modal density. This study presents an improved and integrated experimental/numerical method to identify elastic and dissipative parameters of overhead power cables, using a novel receptance expression, experimental data and nonlinear optimization techniques. The receptance expression (which relates displacement and force in the frequency domain) is of analytical nature, the fidelity of which is verified in comparison to a formulation developed via the finite element method. Experimental data are collected from discrete harmonic sweep and impact tests, performed on a conductor cable in a laboratory bench under five different tensile loads. The ensuing results show that the bending stiffness tends to increase with tensile load while the equivalent material loss factor tends to decrease, which is consistent with reports in the pertinent literature. It is shown that the proposed method proves to be a consistent, efficacious and meaningful alternative for thesimultaneous and flexible estimation of stiffness and damping parameters of overhead power cables, contributing to advance the subject beyond its current state.</p>