Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection / RSP Bird (PDF)

The advent of complex intelligent structures and low-voltage
electronic installations within buildings requires increasingly
sophisticated lightning protections techniques. As a multimedia
book, Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection is a
unique, interactive self-teaching tool that provides an in-depth
understanding of lightning protection.

Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection helps
the reader to understand the propagation of waves within complex
intelligent structures within buildings, and the operation of
systems designed to protect these structures. It also comments on
proper human behaviour during a lightning thunderstorm.

* Accompanied by a web-based animation program
http://www.wiley.com/go/horvath

* Shows the fundamental processes of the lightning phenomenon,
and helps the reader to understand the measures of protection
against lightning damage.

* Offers a new theory and calculation method to estimate the
efficiency of lightning air termination systems, which helps to
evaluate the residual risk of the lightning protection system.

* Examines the propogation of waves and the associated protection
of intelligent systems against lightning electromagnetic
impulses.

This interactive teaching tool is designed for senior
undergraduate and postgraduate students in electrical engineering,
construction, physics and meteorology. It will also provide a
valuable resource for practitioners within electric power
distribution, electronics, informatics & construction
safety.