Tibor Horváth 
Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection 
A Multimedia Teaching Guide

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.

Table of Content

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.

About the author

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.