Congratulations to Antonio Zaldivar de Alba for successfully defending his Ph.D. this Thursday, April 7th, 2022. He is the second student from the Wind Engineering Research Laboratory to do so. He will be joining Walter P Moore at the Structures …
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Prof. Lombardo wins CAREER award to advance thunderstorm risk assessment
Prof. Lombardo has been awarded the NSF CAREER award for his project Engineering-Centric Thunderstorm Hazard and Loading Characterization. CAREER awards, administered under the Faculty Early Career Development Program, are the NSF’s most prestigious form of support and recognition for junior …
Zach Wienhoff and Antonio Zaldivar present at THWARTS/IBHS Natural Hazards Symposium
Zach Wienhoff and Antonio Zaldivar presented part of their research at THWARTS/IBHS Natural Hazards Symposium. The webinar happened on March 23, 2021. After the main presentation given by Dr. Brian Phillips and titled “Development of a Mobile Weather Station for …
Paper to advance the acquisition of data during extreme events
Ph.D. students Antonio Zaldivar, Jason Lopez, and Justin Nevill, and Prof. Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled “Development and validation of a mobile bluff-body to understand extreme wind loading”. The paper …
Paper on empirical tornado resilience model
Ph.D. student Justin Nevill and Prof. Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal Engineering Structures titled “Empirical tornado resilience model for light-framed wood residential buildings”. The paper details an empirical tornado resilience model for light-framed wood structures based on …
Paper on the influence of vented floors on the crosswind response of tall buildings.
Former group member Rishabh R. Moorjani, Prof. Lombardo, Austin F. Devin, Bradley S. Young, William F. Baker, and Stephen D. Ray, published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled “Influence of vented floors on …
Daniel Rhee successfully defended thesis
Congratulations to Daniel M. Rhee that successfully defended his Ph.D. this Friday, January 8th, 2021. He is the first student from the Wind Engineering Research Laboratory to do so. He will continue with the group as a post-doc funded by …
Paper on the history of the peak three-second gust
Prof. Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled “History of the peak three-second gust”. The paper “provides a general timeline of its usage in the literature and practice, reasons and rationale for …
Paper on Semi-automated tree-fall pattern identification
Ph.D. student Daniel Rhee, Prof. Lombardo, and REU Jason Kadowski published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled “Semi-automated tree-fall pattern identification using image processing technique: Application to Alonsa, MB tornado”. The paper developed …
Paper on automated classification method for thunderstorms
Ph.D. student Guangzhao Chen and Prof. Frank Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled “An automated classification method of thunderstorm and non-thunderstorm wind data based on a convolutional neural network”. The paper …