Horváth Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection

A Multimedia Teaching Guide
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-03088-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RSP Bird

The advent of complex intelligent structures and low-voltageelectronic installations within buildings requires increasinglysophisticated lightning protections techniques. As a multimediabook, Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection is aunique, interactive self-teaching tool that provides an in-depthunderstanding of lightning protection.
Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection helpsthe reader to understand the propagation of waves within complexintelligent structures within buildings, and the operation ofsystems designed to protect these structures. It also comments onproper human behaviour during a lightning thunderstorm.
* Accompanied by a web-based animation programhttp://www.wiley.com/go/horvath
* Shows the fundamental processes of the lightning phenomenon,and helps the reader to understand the measures of protectionagainst lightning damage.
* Offers a new theory and calculation method to estimate theefficiency of lightning air termination systems, which helps toevaluate the residual risk of the lightning protection system.
* Examines the propogation of waves and the associated protectionof intelligent systems against lightning electromagneticimpulses.
This interactive teaching tool is designed for seniorundergraduate and postgraduate students in electrical engineering,construction, physics and meteorology. It will also provide avaluable resource for practitioners within electric powerdistribution, electronics, informatics & constructionsafety.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horváth, Tibor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapters and Subsections.
Introduction.
1. Cloud, cyclone and fronts.
2. Electric charges in clouds.
3. Discharge processes in air.
4. Development of the lightning flash.
5. Physics of the lightning discharge.
6. Curious lightning phenomena.
7. Induced voltage.
8. Dynamic forces due to lightning.
9. Heat effects on metal objects.
10. Lightning attachment.
11. Collection space of structures.
12. Protective effect on flat roof.
13. Protection of inclined roof.
14. Residual risk of lightning protection.
15. Classification of structures.
16. Air termination systems.
17. Down conductors and metal objects.
18. Earthing of lightning protection system.
19. Lightning electromagnetic impulse.
20. Graded surge-protection.
21. Surge protection devices.
22. Internal lightning protection zones.
23. Connection to electric power network.
24. Protection of electronic devices.
25. Lightning measurement and localization.
26. The mankind in the thunderstorm.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Tibor Horvath is a Professor Emeritus at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has authored 17 books on high voltage engineering, insulations, static electricity, measurements and testing & the history of electrotechnics, and over 120 journal articles and conference papers. He has served as president of the International Conference on Lightning Protection, and has designed lightning protection systems for many prestigious buildings including the Hungarian Parliament and the cathedral of Budapest.