As the use of carbon fibre composites increases in aircraft manufacturing, so does the need for EMI shielding and lightning strike protection [1-4]. Lightning strike protection usually takes the form ...

Reference [1] describes a process for the design of lightning protection that transforms the transient experienced by the components during the lightning test transient into the reference transients ...

Lightning strikes are sometimes cited as part of the cause of data center failures, including recent incidents at Google’s Ghislain data center in Belgium, and the Singapore Stock Exchange. However, ...

Since Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the effectiveness of lightning rods in preventing or greatly reducing the damage from direct strikes, there have been many attempts to market other types of ...

US FAA officials intend to issue a “special condition” providing clarification of the lightning protection requirements that must be complied with before Boeing’s 787 can be certified. The airframer ...

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 ...