One of our members, Rishabh, presented his work on the influence of a building’s architectural form on its crosswindresponse during the 20th Annual Structural Engineering Conference hosted at UIUC. At the end, he received the best poster award given to …
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Group Participates at the 2019 Illinois Structural Engineering Conference
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. …
2019 Graduate Image of Research Competition
Congratulations to graduate students Daniel Rhee (second place) and Justin Nevill (semifinalist) for their participation at the 2019 Graduate Image of Research competition!…
Justin Nevill and Daniel Rhee semifinalists at 2019 Image of Research competition!
Graduate students Justin Nevill and Daniel Rhee were selected as semifinalist in the graduate student edition of the 2019 Image of Research competition! For their images titled: “This was my father’s house… he didn’t make it.” and A-maize-ing …
Presentation to community at Naplate, IL
Prof. Lombardo and PhD Student Justin Nevill presented the Wind Engineering Research Laboratory’s work on the 2017 Naplate Tornado to Naplate’s residents, community leaders and interested audience. The event took place at Naplate’s Fire Department and was the result of …
Daniel Rhee passed PhD Preliminary Exam
Daniel Rhee passed his PhD preliminary exam! His committee members were Prof. Jeff Trapp, Prof. James LaFave, Prof. Eun Cha and Prof. Frank Lombardo. His working developing the tree fall model.
Dan is the first PhD Candidate at the …
Paper on full-scale downburst loading
Prof. Frank Lombardo, Prof. Matthew Mason and PhD. student Antonio Zaldivar published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled Investigation of a downburst loading event on a full-scale low-rise building.
You can find the …
Paper on garage door and associated roof damage
Undergraduate student Rachel N. Kovar, Dr. Tanya Brown-Giammanco and Prof. Frank Lombardo published a new paper at Frontiers in Built Environment titled Leveraging Remote-Sensing Data to Assess Garage Door Damage and Associated Roof Damage.
This is a collaboration between the …
Antonio Zaldivar wins AAWE student competition
Graduate student Antonio Zaldivar won the student competition at the 5th American Association for Wind Engineering Workshop in Miami, FL. The award includes partial funding to the 15th ICWE in Beijing, China!…
Prof. Lombardo presents at the DAS Seminar Series
Prof. Lombardo presented the Wind Lab’s work at the University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Science Seminar Series.…