Prof. Lombardo talked at DesignSafe Radio about the development and deployment of our mobile fleet. You can find the episode here! …
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Successful Tornado Symposium
The 2018 Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and ReducTion Symposium (THWARTS) was a great success! Thanks to all the attendees and NSF for its support.
The Symposium took place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and hosted meteorologists, risk managers, wind …
Paper on wind speed characterization
Phd. student Daniel Rhee and Prof. Frank Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled Improved near-surface wind speed characterization using damage patterns.
Special congrats to Daniel Rhee as this is his first …
Group participates at the 5th AAWE workshop
The Wind Engineering Research Laboratory participated at the 5th AAWE workshop. The 3 day workshop included technical presentations, tours to the Wall of Wind at Florida International University and to the SUSTAIN Facility at the University of Miami. Moreover, the …
Rantoul Damage Survey
The Wind Engineering Research Laboratory surveyed damage caused by an EF-1 rated tornado at Rantoul, IL. We observed interesting corn damage patterns, click on the image to download a video clip of them.
More results to come!…
Group participates at the EMI Conference 2018
Graduate student, Justin Nevill and Prof. Frank Lombardo presented results on resiliency models for tornado damage and the possibilities of tornado damage surveys at the Engineering Mechanics Institute 2018 Conference Organized By Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of Massachusetts …
Group participates at the 2018 SEI Structures Congress
Graduate students, Daniel Rhee and Antonio Zaldivar, presented part of their work at the 2018 SEI Structures Congress. The titles of their presentations were Lessons Learned from Recent Tornado Damage Surveys; and Transient Wind Loading Characteristics for Tornado Based Design. …
Antonio Zaldivar receives best poster award
One of our members, Antonio, presented his work on thunderstorm and tornado wind loading on low-rise buildings during the 19th Annual Structural Engineering Conference hosted at UIUC. At the end, he received the best poster award given to the most …
Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium (THWARTS)
The Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium (THWARTS) will happen on September 26-27 2018 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!
For more information click here or email Prof. Frank Lombardo: lombaf@illinois.edu…
Naplate, IL EF-3 Tornado Anniversary Visit
After the first anniversary of Naplate’s EF-3 tornado, The Wind Engineering Group returned there to perform a recovery assessment. This is our fourth visit to Naplate and a full resilience report is to come!
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