The Wind Engineering Research Laboratory participated at the 2019 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference held at the I Hotel and Conference Center.

Prof. Frank Lombardo gave a talk about the Incorporation of Thunderstorm and Tornadoes into Wind Load Codes and Standards. See featured image.

Graduate Student Justin Nevill presented his poster titled Empirical tornado resilience model for light-framed wood buildings. This research is done with data collected after the EF-3 tornado at Naplate, IL. 

Graduate Student Rishabh Moorjani presented his poster titled Influence of a Building’s Architectural Form on its Crosswind Response, a collaborative project with SOM.

Graduate student Guanzhao Chen presented his poster titled An analytical pattern-based method for estimation of a near-surface tornadic wind field.

Graduate student Antonio Zaldivar presented his poster titled Loading Characterization of Thunderstorms and Tornadoes.