One of the less-common contracting specialties in northern New England is lightning protection for structures. Although damaging lightning strikes to buildings are less common here than in other ...

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite structures are serving an increasingly important role in aerospace, infrastructure, energy generation, and transportation. Yet, the electrical behavior of a ...

Transient overvoltages can cripple an electrical system, causing critical component failure and potentially igniting a fire in your facility. There are two categories of transient overvoltages: ...

Q. Please explain how I'm supposed to ground a service on a building that has a ground ring used for the lightning protection system grounding electrode? A. If a ...

Lightning can strike twice. In the case of aircraft, it can strike multiple times. On planes built from highly conductive aluminum, even the worst-case 200,000-ampere jolt can be quickly conducted ...

An airplane flying between oppositely charged regions can trigger lightning within a cloud, from cloud to cloud, or from cloud to ground. Chris Cosner Every airliner is struck by lightning in flight ...

Outdoor lighting plays a critical role in modern construction and design. From architectural facades and landscape illumination to signage, walkways, and hospitality venues, outdoor lighting must ...

Lightning is one of the main paths for electrons to return from the atmosphere to the earth's surface. As in all electron flow, lightning is a form of current flow. Enormously high voltages (Table 1) ...

Without question, a thunderstorm is very dangerous. It can produce high winds, tornados, hail, and floods, which usually are not big problems for boats or ships. But it also creates ESD events called ...