Congratulations to Guangzhao Chen for successfully defending his Ph.D. this Wednesday, June 28th, 2023. He is the third one from the Wind Engineering Research Laboratory.
His dissertation provides a streamlined method for collecting, recognizing and documenting the Field Indicators (FI) …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
