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 …
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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 …
Prof. Lombardo Presented at the International Wind Engineering Seminar
Prof. Lombardo gave a presentation during the first International Wind Engineering Seminar via Zoom. His presentation highlighted the work being done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign regarding tornadoes.
The recordings and abstracts of all the presentations given at …
Prof. Lombardo presents at the VIRTUAL-2020 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium
Prof. Frank Lombardo presented “Measurement of Near-Surface Pressure, Wind and Wind-Induced Load Characteristics Using Novel Sensors in Thunderstorm, Tornado, and Tornado-Like Environments” at the VIRTUAL-2020 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium. The Symposium was hosted by the Engineering Laboratory at NIST and …
Antonio Zaldivar at the Engineering Management Institute Podcast
Our graduate student Antonio Zaldivar talked at the Engineering Management Institute’s podcast, the Structural Engineering Channel episode 30. He discussed the importance of wind engineering and his student leadership role at the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE.
The episode is …