Technical Session #5: Student Lighting Presentations

5.1 Optimal design of a low-rise structure in a wind tunnel using deterministic and metaheuristic algorithms
Michael L. Whiteman*1, Brian M. Phillips1, Forrest J. Masters2
1University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20724, USA; 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

5.2 An investigation of the relationship between doppler vortex signatures and polarimetric debris signatures in damaging tornadoes
Zachary B. Wienhoff*1, Howard B. Bluestein1, Louis J. Wicker2, David Bodine3, Boon Leng Cheong3, Dylan W. Reif1, and Nathan Dahl1
1School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA; 2NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK 73072, USA; 3Advanced Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA

5.3 Engineering-based Tornado Damage Assessment (ETDA) tool: methodology of tornado wind field and wild load characteristics estimation
Irina N. Afanasyeva*1, David O. Prevatt1
1Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, 465 Weil Hall, 1949 Stadium Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

5.4 UIUC Wind Engineering Research Laboratory’s lessons learned from recent tornado events
Alexander S. Zickar*1, Franklin T. Lombardo1, Justin B. Nevill1, Daniel M. Rhee1, Guangzhao Chen1, Jason M. Lopez1, Rishabh R. Moorjani1, Antonio Zaldivar de Alba1
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

5.5 Development of novel wind engineering equipment
Antonio Zaldivar de Alba*1, Franklin T. Lombardo1, Justin B. Nevill1, Alexander S. Zickar1, Daniel M. Rhee1, Guangzhao Chen1, Jason M. Lopez1, Rishabh R. Moorjani1
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

*Presenting author