Lightning induced disturbances in buried cables - part II: experiment and model validation

This paper presents experimental results obtained at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT) at Camp Blanding, Florida during the summers of 2002 and 2003. Currents induced by triggered and natural lightning events were measured at the terminations of a buried power cable, in the cable shield, and in the inner cable conductor. Measurements of the horizontal component of the magnetic field above the ground surface for both natural and triggered lightning are also presented. For distant natural lightning events, locations of ground strike points were determined using the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN). Based on the theoretical developments presented in Part I of this paper , the field-to-buried cable coupling equations are solved in both the time domain and in the frequency domain. The obtained experimental results are then used to validate the numerical simulations provided by the relevant developed codes.

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