Fundamental understanding of the physics of lightning in order to understand the principles of lightning protection. Lecture will provide a review of the actual lightning protection standards for buildings and special objects, such as HV substations, photovoltaic installations, and wind turbines
Ligthning discharge, measurement techniques and instrumentation, ALDIS (Austrian Lightning and Information System), lightning parameters, lightning protection systems (LPS), Rolling sphere method, standards, practical problems
Lecture notes are available as PDF in the TISS system.
M.A.Uman: The Lightning Discharge
V.A. Rakow and M.A. Uman: Lightning (Physics and Effects), Cambridge University Press, 2003
Kern und Wettingfeld: Blitzschutzsysteme 1 (VDE Verlag, Band 44)
Cooray Vernon: An Introduction to Lightning, Springer 2015
V.A. Rakov: Fundamentals of Lightning, Cambridge University Press, 2016