In order to study the impacts of faulted vertical grounding electrode on transient grounding resistance, the author uses thin-slot on the surface of the electrode condition and localized corrosion condition to simulate a faulted electrode. By finite-difference time-domain method, using Maflab program language, analyzes the transient grounding resistance changes at different fault types and different distances between trouble spots and the top of the vertical electrode. Through analysis of research, the transient resistances are larger than normal both a thin-slot on the surface of the vertical...