International Workshop on Wind Engineering Research and Practice
Current State-of-the-Art and Future Needs/Plans/Policies
May 28- 29, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Venue: Sunflower Room
Workshop Summary
This workshop aims to bring together prominent structural/wind engineers and meteorologists from academia, industry, and government, along with research program managers and policy makers for (a) reviewing the current state-of-the-art of wind engineering research and practice, (b) preparing short-term and long-term research needs and plans, and (c) formulating recommendations that will help in facilitating technology/knowledge transfer. The workshop includes twelve presentations by distinguished speakers who will deliver 30-minute lectures on various fields to cover broad topics such as wind characteristics and wind hazards, full-scale/field measurements, wind tunnel measurements, computational wind engineering, building codes, tornado-related design needs, etc., one group discussion session and one panel discussion session. Several participants from universities, industries and government organizations will participate in this workshop. The speakers and participants are from four countries including USA, Canada, Germany and Japan which adds the international flavor to this workshop. The two-day workshop is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Day 1 (May 28, 2010) and 8:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. on Day 2 (May 29, 2010). It is being held in conjunction with The Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, May 23-27, 2010, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
This workshop is being organized by Dr. Partha P. Sarkar, Professor in the Departments of Aerospace Engineering and Civil Engineering at Iowa State University and Mr. John Gaynor, Director, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The workshop is sponsored by a research grant from NOAA to Iowa State University.
Partha P. Sarkar, Workshop Chairperson
John Gaynor, Workshop Co-chairperson
AGENDA
International Workshop on Wind Engineering Research and Practice
Current State-of-the-Art and Future Needs/Plans
May 28- 29, 2010
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
DAY 1
May 28, 2010 (Friday)
800-830 OPENING OF WORKSHOP
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Partha Sarkar and John Gaynor, Co-Chairs
Introductions (All Participants)
830-1000 TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Session I: Wind Characteristics and Wind Hazards
Moderators: John Gaynor and John Schroeder
(a) Tropical cyclone wind records and damage potential
Mark Powell (AOM Lab, NOAA, Tallahassee, FL)
(b) Wind characteristics of a strong typhoon
Yukio Tamura*, S. Cao, N. Kikuchi, M. Saito, I. Nakayama, and
Y. Matsuzaki (Tokyo Polytechnic University, Atsugi, JAPAN)
1000-1020 REFRESHMENT BREAK
1020-1225 TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Session II: Wind Effects on Buildings
Moderators: David Prevatt and Luca Caracoglia
- Hurricane winds on low-rise buildings: full-scale measurement and scale model comparisons
Kurtis Gurley*, D. Prevatt, F. Masters, Z. Liu, and
L. Aponte-Bermudez (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)
- New test methods to examine and improve the performance of low buildings in extreme winds
Greg Kopp*, M. Morrison, P. Sarathi, D. Henderson, and J. Ginger
(The University of Western Ontario, London, CANADA)
- Tailoring contemporary tall buildings for wind effects
Ahsan Kareem (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN)
1225-1330 LUNCH
1330-1545 TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Session III: Wind Engineering Consulting and Practice
Moderators: Steve Cai and Delong Zuo
- Contemporary architectural aerodynamics and future of wind engineering
Leighton Cochran (CPP, Inc., Fort Collins, CO)
- Considerations for non-linear analysis of structures subjected to wind loads
Anurag Jain (Weidlinger Associates, Inc., Marina del Rey, CA)
- Wind effects on buildings: understanding of wind design standards and codes of practice
Ted Stathopoulos (Concordia University, W. Montreal, CANADA)
1545-1600 REFRESHMENT BREAK
1600-1730 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Group A: Wind Characteristics, Wind Hazards and Full-scale Measurements
Group B: Wind Tunnel and Computational Simulations
Group C: Analytical Techniques and Practice
DAY 2
May 29, 2010 (Saturday)
800-815 OPENING OF DAY 2
Partha Sarkar and John Gaynor, Co-Chairs
815-945 TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Session IV: Tornado Research and Laboratory Measurement Techniques
Moderators: Fred Haan and Partha Sarkar
- Research needs for tornado design
Kishor Mehta (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
- PIV and PSP techniques and their applications for wind engineering studies
Hui Hu*, Z. Yang, P. Sarkar (Iowa State University, Ames, IA)
945-1000 REFRESHMENT BREAK
1000-1130 TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Session V: Computational Wind Engineering
Moderators: Girma Bitsuamlak and Yasuo Okuda
- Building and bridge aerodynamics using computational wind engineering
R. Panneer Selvam (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR)
- CFD application to predict wind flow around built-in structures and complex terrain
Tetsuro Tamura
(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JAPAN)
1130-1230 LUNCH
1230-200 PANEL DISCUSSION (ALL)
Wind Engineering Research Needs and the Challenges of the Transfer of Knowledge into Practice for Improved Wind Resiliency
Panelists:
Cochran, Jain, Gaynor, Selvam, Main, Prevatt, Stathopoulos, Y. Tamura
200-215 CLOSING
Partha Sarkar and John Gaynor, Co-Chairs
SPEAKERS
1. Dr. Leighton Cochran
Principal
CPP, Inc.
Fort Collins, CO
2.
Dr. Kurt Gurley
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
3.
Dr. Hui Hu
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
4.
Dr. Anurag Jain
Principal
Weidlinger Associates, Inc.
Marina del Rey, CA
5.
Dr. Ahsan Kareem, NAE
Robert M. Moran Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Geotechnical Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
6.
Dr. Greg Kopp
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Spencer Engineering Building
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
CANADA
7.
Dr. Kishor Mehta, NAE
P.W. Horn Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
8.
Dr. Mark Powell
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Hurricane Research Division
Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmo. Prediction Studies
Tallahassee, FL
9.
Dr. Ted Stathopoulos
Professor, Center for Building Studies
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Concordia University
West Montreal, Quebec
CANADA
10.
Dr. Panneer Selvam
James T. Womble Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
11.
Dr. Tetsuro Tamura
Professor
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yokohama
JAPAN
12.
Dr. Yukio Tamura
Professor, Director of Global COE Program
Tokyo Polytechnic University
Wind Engineering Research Center
JAPAN
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
- Girma Bitsuamlak, Florida International University
- Harold Bosch, Federal Highway Administration
- Bochao Cao, Iowa State University
- Steve Cai, Louisiana State University
- Luca Caracoglia, Northeastern University
- Suren Chen, Colorado State University
- Xinzhong Chen, Texas Tech University
- Anne Cope, IBHS
- William Coulbourne, Applied Technology Council
- Vinay Dayal, Iowa State University
- Elena Dragomirescu, University of Ottawa, Canada
- John Gaynor, NOAA
- Jens Johansson, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Fred Haan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Michael Hoftyzer, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Alan Huber, University of North Carolina
- Joseph Main, NIST
- Masaaki Ohba, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
- Yasuo Okuda, BRI, Japan
- David Prevatt, University of Central Florida
- Matthias Ratheiser, Weatherpark GmbH, Germany
- Partha Sarkar, Iowa State University
- John Schroeder, Texas Tech University
- Kwon Soon-Duck, Chonbuk National University, South Korea
- Hephzibah Thampi, Iowa State University
- Delong Zuo, Texas Tech University
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