DocumentCode
2742345
Title
Lightning protection of Chinese ancient architecture
Author
Hu, Jun ; Li, Chen
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fYear
2011
fDate
1-4 Nov. 2011
Firstpage
844
Lastpage
847
Abstract
Lightning phenomenon have long been a focus of ancient people. For ancient Chinese, lightning is an even huge threat for their wooden structure. This paper shows that ancient Chinese may have taken some measures to protect their buildings from lightning strike hundreds years ago. According to existing literature, some installations in ancient buildings have played the role of lightning rod. And the surprising effect of a mysterious lightning protection mechanism is introduced.
Keywords
building management systems; lightning protection; Chinese ancient architecture; building protection; lightning protection mechanism; lightning rod; lightning strike; wooden structure; Buildings; History; Iron; Lightning protection; Poles and towers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lightning (APL), 2011 7th Asia-Pacific International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chengdu
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1467-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/APL.2011.6110245
Filename
6110245
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