Publicado
2001-01-01
A REDUCED-SCALE MODEL TO EVALUATE THE RESPONSE OF TALL TOWERS HIT BY LIGHTNING
Palabras clave:
Lightning, Instrumented Tower, Reduced-Scale Models (RSM), elevated strike object (ESO) (es)
We present a reduced-scale model developed
to analyze the surge response of tall towers hit by a
lightning return stroke. The height of the reduced-scale
tower model could be varied from 40 cm to 1 m and the
minimum rise-time of the injected voltage at its top is
about 500 ps. The response of a simple configuration,
namely a vertical cone is analyzed and compared with
theory. One of the aims of the system is the study of the
contamination of lightning current measured using
instrumented towers.