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Lightning activities are growing up rapidly with global warming. It can affect anything on the earth. All the constructed buildings need proper protection from the harmful effect of lightning. Lightning strike points on different geometrical shapes have been investigated. Lightning strike distribution of different building structure is very important to be studied. In order to analyse the maximum effect of lightning strike pattern is obtained of different air terminals installed on scaled building structures. High voltage impulse generator is used in order to get the impulse voltage. Different numbers of air terminals have been applied to all the shapes in order to see the lightning strike points. Electric field is obtained in order to see its minimum and maximum effect on the entire building structure. Interestingly the phenomenon of lightning air terminal bypasses has been proved in this paper.

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Lightning indoor testing got a very low attention of the researchers. Although lightning is impossible to create inside the laboratory however it can be presented using high voltage impulse. High voltage impulse was generated in this paper which presents the actual lightning. Selected building structures were tested under the high voltage condition. This idea was implemented practically by applying it on different real building structures. Different building with different roof tops were observed practically and it was found that this research work has a good agreement of the lightning strike points observe during the indoor activities in high voltage lab and out door activity during the field study.

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