Graduate student Antonio Zaldivar was selected as a semifinalist in the graduate student edition of the 2020 Image of Research competition! His image is titled: “A Small Cube to Solve Big Wind Load Problems.”
The images are being …
WindLab goes to Cookeville to investigate tornado damage
The Wind Engineering Research Laboratory surveyed the Cookeville and Nashville area after the devastating tornado in March 3, 2020. The survey lasted 4 days from Saturday, March 6th to Tuesday, March 9th. Here are 3 preliminary lessons after this survey:…
Paper on Structural Functionality
Ph.D. student Justin Nevill and Prof. Frank Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal of Structural Engineering titled “Structural Functionality Scale for Light-Framed Wood Buildings with Indicators for Windstorm Damage”. The paper presents “A new, broadly applicable scale for …
Paper on analytical method for wind field estimation
Ph.D. student Guangzhao Chen and Prof. Frank Lombardo published a new paper at the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics titled “An analytical pattern-based method for estimation of a near-surface tornadic wind field”.
Special congrats to Guangzhao Chen as …
Successful THWARTS 2019
THWARTS 2019 occurred October 14 & 15 in Champaign, IL and was a great success. The symposium was structured as a single-track conference with presentations from experts and early researchers in wind science and engineering, atmospheric science, structural engineering, social …
NIST GRANT FUNDS THE GROUP
We are excited to announce we are the recipient of a NIST Disaster Resilience grant. The group will investigate extreme near-surface wind and wind loading characteristics using novel instrumentation.
Further information can be found at https://cee.illinois.edu/news/nist-grant-funds-wind-research-illinois…
Group participates on ICWE 15th
The Wind Engineering Research Laboratory participated on the 15th International Conference on Wind Engineering September 1-6, 2019, in Beijing, China.
The group participated with 8 oral presentations. ICWE 15 was a great venue to expose the work the Wind Engineering …
Prof. Lombardo receives IAWE Junior Award
CEE Assistant Professor Franklin T. Lombardo has been awarded the Junior Award by the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE). The award is given annually to one engineer under the age of 40 who has established a record of outstanding …
Group Participates at IAS17
Four group members, Guangzhao Chen, Justin Nevill, Daniel Rhee, and Antonio Zaldivar, participated on the 17th International Advanced School on Wind and Structural Engineering held in Beijing, China from August 30 to September 01, 2019.
The course covered wind flow …
Zach Wienhoff joins group
UIUC WindLab is pleased to announce that Zachary B. Wienhoff is joining us as a graduate research assistant. Zach brings expertise in supercell and tornado dynamics, and radar meteorology. The WindLab is eager to see how Zach will contribute to …