On estimation of the effective height of towers on mountaintops in lightning incidence studies

Journal of Electrostatics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 415-418

  Zhou, Helin ^a   Theethayi, Nelson ^b   Diendorfer, Gerhard ^c   Thottappillil, Rajeev ^a   Rakov, Vladimir A ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION   (Sweden)

^c Austrian Electrotechnical Association OVE   (Austria)

^d J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective height; Lightning incidence; Towers

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE HEIGHT; ENGINEERING MODELS; LIGHTNING ATTACHMENT;

LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION;

TOWERS;

EID: 77957142039     PISSN: 03043886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elstat.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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