Technical Session #6: ASCE Tornado Wind Speed Estimation

6.1 Feasibility of Estimating Wind Speed from Tornado-Induced Vehicle Movements
Fred L. Haan*1, David B. Roueche2
1Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, USA; 2Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849

6.2 Optimizing RAPID Damage Investigations with 3D Scene Captures
J. Arn Womble*1,2, Richard L. Wood3, Peter J. Hughes1, M. Ebrahim Mohammadi3
1West Texas A&M University, Amarillo/Canyon, TX, USA; 2Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, Richburg, SC, USA; 3University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

6.3 Forensic data collection: for failure analysis to estimate wind speeds generated by tornadoes, hurricanes and other windstorms
Thomas Lee Smith*1, AIA, RRC, F.SEI
1TLSmith Consulting Inc., Rockton, IL 61072, USA

6.4 Estimating engineering based wind speed distributions for EF scale
Sudhan S. Banik*1, Lawrence A. Twisdale1
1Applied Research Associates, Inc. Raleigh, N C, USA

6.5 Tornado hazard assessment and effect of structure size
Fanfu Fan*1, Weichiang Pang2, Jin Wang1,2, and Shuyang Cao2
1The Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA; 2College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

6.6 Estimating near-surface tornadic wind fields using damage patterns and an idealized tornado model
Daniel M. Rhee*1, Franklin T. Lombardo1
1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

*Presenting author