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Title
Lightning : science, engineering, and economic implications for developing countries / Chandima Gomes, editor.
ISBN
9789811634406 (electronic bk.)
9811634408 (electronic bk.)
9811634394
9789811634390
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-3440-6 doi
Call Number
TH9057
Dewey Decimal Classification
693.8/98
Summary
This book highlights the essential theoretical and practical aspects of lightning, lightning protection, safety and education. Additionally, several auxiliary topics that are required to understand the core themes are also included. The main objective of the contents is to enlighten the scientists, researchers, engineers and social activists (including policy makers) in developing countries regarding the key information related to lightning and thunderstorms. A majority of developing countries are in tropics where the lightning characteristics are somewhat different from those in temperate regions. The housing structures and power/communication networks, and human behavioural patterns(that depends on socio-economic parameters) in these countries are also different from those in the developed world. As the existing books on similar themes address only those scenarios in developed countries, this book serves a vast spectrum of readership in developing world who seek knowledge in the principles of lightning and a practical guidance on lightning protection and safety education.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 18, 2021).
Series
Lecture notes in electrical engineering ; v. 780. 1876-1119
Lightning, the Science
Lightning Detection and Warning
Risk Assessment for Lightning Protection
Protection of Buildings and Structures
Protection of Low Voltage Equipment and Systems
Lightning Protection of High-Risk Installations: Petrochemical Plants
Protection of Selected Cases: Pv Systems, Wind Turbines and Railway Systems
Lightning Injury: Occurrence and Medical Treatment
Lightning: Public Concepts and Safety Education
Economic, Technical and human implications of Lightning Protection
Frontiers in Lightning Research and Opportunities for Scientists from Developing Countries.