PROTECTION OF STRUCTURES

- PRINCY THAKKAR
- PRITHVIRAJ PATEL
- BHAKTI HASORA
- SUHANI
What is the Lightning Protection Systems LPS?
•A Lighting Protection System (LPS) is the system that provides a means by which a lightning discharge
may enter or leave earth without passing through and damaging personnel, electrical equipment, and
non-conducting structures such as buildings.
•So, A Lightning Protection System does not prevent
lightning from striking; it provides a means for
controlling it and prevents damage by providing a
low resistance path for the discharge of the
lightning energy.

•A reliable Lightning Protection System LPS must

encompass both structural lighting protection and
transient overvoltage (electronic systems)
protection. Simply stated, a structural lightning
protection system cannot and will not protect the
electronic systems within a building from transient
overvoltage damage.

Example of A Lighting Protection System (LPS)

 Why Using the Lightning Protection Systems LPS?
1.Risk to persons (and animals),
2.Risk to structures & internal equipment.

1- Risk to persons (and animals) include:

•Direct flash,
•Step potential,
•Touch potential,
•Side flash,
•Secondary effects, such as:
1.asphyxiation from smoke or injury due to fire,
2.structural dangers such as falling masonry from point of strike,
3.unsafe conditions such as water ingress from roof penetrations causing electrical or other hazards, failure or malfunction of processes, equipment and safety systems.

2- Risk to structures & internal equipment include:

•Fire and/or explosion triggered by heat of lightning flash, its attachment point or electrical arcing of lightning current within structures,
•Fire and/or explosion triggered by ohmic heating of conductors or arcing due to melted conductors,
•Punctures of structure roofing due to plasma heat at lightning point of strike,
•Failure of internal electrical and electronic systems,
•Mechanical damage including dislodged materials at point of strike.
Coastal protection of structures
• Coastal protection of structures is to protect the harbour and other
infrastructures