Lightning effect on scaled protected and un-protected building structures; a simulation approach

• Main Authors: Baharom, Md Nor Ramdon, Ullah, Irshad, H., Ahmad, Mahmod, Luqman Hakim, Zainal, Zainab
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) 2016
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TK2000-2891 Dynamoelectric machinery and auxiliaries. Including generators, motors, transformers
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4493/1/AJ%202016%20%2844%29.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4493/; http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v2.i2.pages

Lightning strikes affect the building structures by producing high electric field on the surface and around the building structrure. Lighnting air terminal is a traditional enemy of the thunder storm as it captures the lightning flashes. Effect of lightning flash on the building structrue when the l...