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Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide
Tibor Horváth
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Description for Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide
Paperback. This book, along with its supporting animated website, 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. Series: RSP. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JNU; JNV; RBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 326.
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.
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 ... Read more
- 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.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
RSP
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470030189
SKU
V9780470030189
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99-1
About Tibor Horváth
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide
"…would be used by students or as a resource for those who need to design and specify electrical protection equipment…and by anyone with an interest in lighting." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, March/April 2007)