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Title Grounding Resistance of a Hemispheric Electrode Located on the Top of a Finite-Height, Cone-Shaped Mountain
Type JournalPaper
Keywords Grounding , Resistance , Electrodes , Soil , Geometry , Electric potential , Lightning protection
Abstract In this letter, we present an analytical solution for the resistance of a hemispheric grounding electrode located on the top of a mountain. The mountain is modeled as a truncated cone with a finite height. Recently, a closed-form solution for the grounding resistance was derived first for a hemispheric electrode on top of a cone and later for a more realistic case of a truncated cone with a flat region at its top. The height of the cone was considered infinite in those studies. Here, we extend these studies for the case of a truncated cone with finite height. The analytical solution is compared with numerical simulations and the results agree reasonably well.
Researchers Farhad Rachidi (Fifth Researcher), hamidreza Karami (Fourth Researcher), Dragan Poljak (Third Researcher), Marcos RubinStein (Second Researcher), Antonio Šunjerga (First Researcher)