Lightning strikes to elevated structures: Influence of grounding conditions on currents and electromagnetic fields

IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 377-381

  Petrache, E ^a   Rachidi, F ^b   Pavanello, D ^b   Janischewskyj, W ^a   Hussein, A M ^a   Rubinstein, M ^c   Shostak, V ^d   Chisholm, W A ^e   Chang, J S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^e KINECTRICS INC   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ground effects; Lightning; Return stroke models; Tall structure lightning

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

FINITE GROUND CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND EFFECTS; RETURN STROKE MODELS; TALL STRUCTURE LIGHTNING;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 33746601161     PISSN: 10774076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISEMC.2005.1513543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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