• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.14 no.spc
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• pp.49-55
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• 2020

The average probability of a lightning strike to transport aircraft operating in airline service has been estimated to be approximately one strike in every year (or one strike per 1,000 through 20,000 flight hours). The important thing is not the probability of a lightning strike to aircraft, but the fact that aircraft is struck by lightning. Therefore, lightning protection design for aircraft should be qualified and compliance with airworthiness standards related to lightning protection must be substantiated in the process of certification. In this paper, I studied means of compliance for lightning protection through analysis of some test cases, including the KC-100 airplane that firstly obtained civil type certificate in Korea. Based on this paper, it will be also necessary to study on the effect of lightning for space launch vehicles.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.110-120
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• 2003

As the wooden aircraft in the early times has no way to let lightning flow when lighting flash attaches during flight, the aircraft got damage, or caught fire. Though all metal airplane was developed with an advent of aluminum, a lightning accident still occurred including a fire of a fuel tanks. Eventually, NACA declared problems in 1938, and an artificial lightning test began. III succession, FAA established Airworthiness Requirements for certification. The FAA committed test measures study for the protection of an airplane from lightning to SAE. SAE presented the test current and voltage waveforms that simulating natural lightning, and it is utilized on lightning protection certification of an airplane by public. A lightning effects of an airplane through an analysis of lightning mechanism was made in this technical note. Especially, lightning direct effects on aircraft are analyzed and lightning strike zones are described.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.359-365
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• 2022

Air-to-ground missile(AGM), which can be operated by being mounted on the outside of the aircraft, is capable of precision strikes, ensuring high survivability. Helicopter, which is one of the AGM operating platforms, is reported to experience a lightning strike once between 1000 and 20000 flight hours in average. When the lightning strikes the helicopter fuselage, lightning transient signal can be induced to internal and external electronic equipment cables through the skin of the helicopter. If the transient signal exceeding the criteria to electrically initiated device(EID) related to the explosive in the AGM can affect the safety of the helicopter by a warhead explosion, etc. In this paper, we suggest an indirect lightning test method to prove the safety of AGM on helicopter, and present the indirect lightning test results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11d
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• pp.14-17
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• 2004

낙뢰는 본적으로 "완벽한 보호"가 불가능하며 단지 낙뢰 피해의 가능성을 최대한으로 낮추는데 그 의미가 있다. 기술 선진국의 경우 보호반경이나 보호범위는 이 범주 안에서 완벽한 보호가 됨을 명시하는 것이 아니며 어떤 보호확률을 설정하고 그 설정된 보호확률(보호효율)을 보장하는 범위가 어떻게 되는가를 나타내는 것이 보호범위(보호반경)이며 보호확률(보호효율)이 되는 개념인 것이다. 미국의 경우 NFPA에 의거하여, 보호개념의 뇌격거리를 30,45m로 명시하는 것이며 프랑스 및 유럽의 다수 국가에서는 NF C에 의거한 20,45,60m의 피격거리에 의한 보호반경(보호범위)를 명시한 것이다. 어느 것이 더 우수하고 나쁘고의 차원이 아니며 낙뢰보호의 설계시 건축물의 중요도, 낙뢰빈도수, 낙뢰전류의 크기 등 다양한 변수를 고려한 보호확률을 선정하여 보호범위를 설계하여야 할 것이다. 본 논문에서는 자체 개발된 ESE피뢰침을 통해 얻은 기술의 기본적 개념과 기술의 배경을 고찰하였으며 이를 통해 건축물의 적용시 보다 안정되고 효율 높은 낙뢰 보호를 위한 설계, 감리의 초석이 되고자 한다.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.60-69
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• 2019

Companies around the world are actively developing Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) to solve the serious social problem of traffic jams. Airworthiness certification for PAV is required, since it is a manned vehicle. As with aircraft, the critical threat to the safe operation of PAV is lightning strike with strong thermal load and magnetic fields. Lightning certification issue also remains important for PAV, since there are still insufficient development of PAV-related lightning certification technologies, guidelines, and requirements. In this study, the SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP), an international standard certification guideline recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), was analyzed. In addition, the guideline of lightning certification was applied to a PAV. The impact of lightning on PAV was also analyzed through computational software. Finally, the basis for the establishment of the PAV lightning certification guidance was presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.203-206
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• 2004

IEC에 의하면 낙뢰의 보호효율은 1등급(최대98%), 2등급(최대95%), 3등급(최대90%), 4등급(최대80%)으로 나타내고 있으며, 광역피뢰침은 다수설치해야 하는 돌침형 피뢰침의 수량을 기술적으로 최소화 하여 건축물의 안전성과 경제성 등을 향상시키는 역할을 담당하고 있다. 그러나 이런 보호 능력은 설계 및 시공시 세심한 배려가 필요하다. 프랑스에서는 피격거리 60M를 한계로 하며 미국에서는 안전성을 좀더 신경 써 괴격거리 45M를 한계로 가능한 보호효율을 높이고 있는 실정이다. 광역피뢰침의 선정시 보호범위의 최대치 적용은 지양하고 보호 효율을 높여 적용함이 바람직하다. 또한 초고층 빌딩 및 APT단지의 경우 가급적 보호등급을 1등급으로 적용하는 세심한 배려가 필요하다. 시공시 광역피뢰침은 수평면 최고 돌출물(예:옥탈 및 안테나 등)의 설치 높이의 차는 2M이상이 필요하며 이격거리 또한 가급적 최대로 하는 것이 바람직하다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.444-451
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• 2019

In this paper, we introduce the design consideration of the EMI and lightning induced transient protection circuit for RS-170a video signal on the avionics equipment. Avionics equipment is subject to the risk of malfunction or physical damage due to indirect lightning effect from lightning strike or electromagnetic interference from external environment. So in order to protect the avionics equipment from these effects, we should analyze the effect of electromagnetic interference and lightning strike on aircraft and apply protection design for each avionics device, but protection circuit may cause signal distortion if signal level is low and frequency is high. In this paper, we introduce common protection design for EMI and indirect lightning effect, and consideration for minimize signal distortion caused by protection circuit for RS-170a. In addition, we show some example of improvements to the actual equipment design using consideration discussed in this paper.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1071-1086
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• 2016

The safety of aircraft can be threatened by environmental factors, such as icing, turbulence, and lightning strike. Due to its adverse effects on aircraft structure and electronic components of aircraft, lightning strike is one of the biggest hazards on aircraft safety. Lightning strike can inject high voltage electric current to the aircraft, which may generate strong magnetic field and extreme hot spots, leading to severe damage of structure or other equipment in aircraft. In this work, mechanism of lightning strike and associated direct and indirect effects of lightning on aircraft were studied. First, on the basis of aircraft lightning regulations provided by Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP), we considered different lightning waveform and zones of an aircraft. A coupled thermal-electrical computational model of ABAQUS was then used for simulating flow of heat and electric current caused by a lightning strike. A study on fuel tank, with and without lightning protection system, was also conducted using the computational model. Finally, electric current flow on two full scale airframes was analyzed using the EMA3D code.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.302-312
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• 2023

This paper describes the analysis of lightning strike zoning, the indirect lightning data simulation and the protection design for lightning indirect effects of equipment by lightning strike for unmanned aircraft consisting of composite wings. Through the analysis of lightning strike zoning according to the external shape of unmanned aerial vehicles, the structure areas that should be protected during lightning strike is derived, and the protection requirements of lightning indirect effects for flight critical equipments and equipment that must be operated upon lightning strike was derived. Lightning protection levels according to the location of mounting equipment and surrounding structure materials for each equipment was derived, and the protection design of the unmanned aerial vehicle with composite structures was also proposed from direct effect of lightning. Later, the lightning protection technology will be verified by the ground test of lightning direct and indirect effects.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.45-56
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• 2021

Demand for UAM (Urban Air Mobility) aircraft is rapidly increasing in countries around the world due to the problem of traffic congestion in urban areas. Through research and development, various e-VTOL aircraft concepts are being prepared for commercialization, for which airworthiness certification is required, since it is a manned transportation mode for people to board. Factors that pose a fatal threat to the safe operation of UAM aircraft include lightning strikes that can cause damage to structures and disturb the navigation system, as well as icing that impairs flight stability. Since the current UAM aircraft-related lightning and icing certification technology development is insufficient, there is need to develop appropriate airworthiness certification guidelines. In this study, after analyzing the laws and regulations related to aircraft by the FAA and the EASA, we tried to incorporate the lightning and icing certification guidelines for the UAM aircraft. We also analyzed the effects of lightning and icing on UAM aircraft using computational simulation, and presented the basis for establishing practical guidelines for the certification of UAM aircraft to be adopted in the future.