Lightning Protection

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Status of lightning accidents and awareness in South-East Asia/Chandima Gomes, Munir Ahmed and Firoza Hossain. 2. Lightning protection practices in Bangladesh: an overview/Abidur Rahaman and Md. Zahirul Hoque Mozumder. 3. Lightning situation and protection measure in Cambodia/L. Sovannarith. 4. Spatial and temporal distribution of lightning discharges over costa rica/Ileana Mora and Walter Fernandez. 5. A study of lightning discharges over Costa Rica during a period of intense electrical activity: May and June of 2009/Jose Martinez, Walter Fernandez and Ileana Mora. 6. Development of streamer and leader in long air gaps/Ravindra Arora and Umakanta Choudhury. 7. Lightning protection in India/Isha Parmar and Col. Nayan Pani....

Lightning is a highly dramatic and most common natural activity that occurs in the atmosphere. Lightning strike may cause severe damage to physical structures and claim human and animal lives. It may ignite fires that may bring an entire structure down to ashes or create cracks, and at a lower degree of damage, it may destroy electrical, electronic and communication equipment beyond repair. Transmission and communication towers, transmission lines and tall physical structures including residential houses and monuments are more vulnerable to lightning activities. However one of the most significant losses that it may cause as far as the industries are concerned is the downtime. A couple of hours of standstill of normal operation or a loss of some important data stored in a computer may cause a company a huge economic loss.