Product Description

This manual seeks to provide the reader with a thorough background in almost every aspect of lightning and its impact on electrical and electronic equipment. The contents range from basic discharge processes in air through transient electromagnetic field generation and interaction with overhead lines and underground cables, to lightning protection and testing techniques. The text should be suitable for those designing, installing or commissioning equipment which needs to be secured against lightning strikes, and can also be used as an introduction to research students working in the field.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #327313 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-15
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 574 pages

About the Author
Vernon Cooray is Full Professor in
Electricity at the Division for Electricity
and Lightning Research, The Ångström
Laboratory, Uppsala University, and is
responsible for postgraduate studies
in the field of Atmospheric Electrical
Discharges. Professor Cooray is the
Swedish member of CIGRE-WG33.01
(lightning location), CIGRE-WG33.02
(interaction of electromagnetic fields
with power lines) and CIGRE-WG
33.04 (soil ionisation) and is the chairman
of the CIGRE-WG33.03 ( lightning
interception). He is also a
member of the scientific committee of
the International Conference on
Lightning Protection. Professor Cooray
has conducted experimental and theoretical
research work in electromagnetic
compatibility, electromagnetic
wave propagation, lightning physics,
lightning protection and discharge
physics, has authored and coauthored
more than 150 scientific
papers, and is the author of a popular
book in Swedish (Blixt ock Åska - Så
fungerar naturens fyrverkeri, Hallgren
& Fallgren) on lightning.