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(updated June 9)

Monday

(8:30 am - 9:00 am)

Conference Inauguration

(9:00 am - 9:45 am)
Keynote Speaker: Ronald T. Eguchi
Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods and other Disasters: A View from Space      
link to abstract
Coffee Break and Posters (9:45 am - 10:00 am)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 1 (10:00 am - 11:45 am)

Hurricanes Tall Buildings Wind Loadings on Roofs Bridges: Experimental and Parametric Studies
1.1 Assessing Climate Change Impact on the US East Coast Hurricane Hazard, III: Sea Temperature, Hurricane Frequency, and Hurricane Track (Lauren Mudd, Yue Wang, Chris Letchford and David Rosowsky) 2.1 Influence of aerodynamic interference on the performance of tall buildings (Thomas Mara, T.C. Eric Ho, Nicholas Isyumov, B.K. Terry) 3.1 A Preliminary Approach to Determining Component and Cladding Wind Loads on Modular Green Roof Systems (Tuan D. Vo, David Prevatt, Glenn A. Acomb, Forrest Masters) 4.1 Wind Tunnel Study on the Towers of the First Bosphorus Bridge (Lorenzo Rosa, Marco Belloli, Alberto Zasso and Dyab Khazem)
1.2 Velocity Azimuth Display Derived Wind Profiles from the Hurricane Boundary Layer (Richard Krupar III and John Schroeder) 2.2 Effect of State-Augmentation Numerical Scheme on the Stochastic Dynamics of a Tall Building under Wind Loading Uncertainty (Luca Caracoglia) 3.2 .Estimation of Wind Loads on an Open Parking Lot Porous Canopy Roof (Juan Sebastian Delnero, Julio Marañón Di Leo, Mariano García Sáinz, Andrés Cánchero and Ana Scarabino) 4.2 Wind Tunnel Measurements of Aerodynamic Forces on Bridges in Different Traffic Flow Conditions (Yan Han, C.S. Cai and Jiexuan Hu)
1.3 Projection of Future US Design Wind Speeds due to Changes in Hurricane Activity: Storm Frequency and Sea Surface Temperature (Fangqian Liu, Weichiang Pang) 2.3 Contribution of higher mode vibrations to the wind-induced responses of prismatic tall buildings with uniform and setback topologies (Workamaw Warsido and Girma Bitsuamlak) 3.3 Wind Load Model for Asphalt Shingle Roofing Systems (Craig Dixon, Forrest Masters, David Prevatt and Gregory Kopp) 4.3 A Model for Vortex-induced Vibration Analysis of Long-Span Bridges (Mehedy Mashnad and Nicholas Jones)
1.4 H*Wind Hurricane Time History Extraction for Defined Locations (Seyed Madani, Mohammad Baradaranshoraka, Carol Friedland) 2.4 Improving Aerodynamic Performance of Tall Buildings Using Fluid Based Aerodynamic Modification: Preliminary Results (David Menicovich, Daniel Lander, Jason Vollen, Michael Amitay, Chris Letchford and Anna Dyson) 3.4 Relative Variations in Roof Pressure Loads of High Value, Large Square Footage Homes (Kyle Butler) 4.4 Parametric Study on Life-Cycle Maintenance and Repair Costs Caused by “Multi-Hazard” Wind Excitation on a Long-Span Bridge (Dong-Woo Seo, Luca Caracoglia, Ki-Tae Park)
1.5 Reproducing Tornadoes in Laboratory Using Proper Scaling (Maryam Refan, Horia Hangan and Joshua Wurman) 2.5 Aerodynamic characteristics of tall buildings with unconventional configurations (Yong Chul Kim, Yukio Tamura, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kazuo Ohtake, Bandi Eswara Kumar and Akihito Yoshida) 3.5 Roof Sheathing Wind Loads on Wood-Frame Residential Houses (Eri Gavanski, Gregory Kopp and Peter Vickery) 4.5 Wind Resistance Study of a Three-pylon Suspension Bridge (Rujin Ma, Dalei Wang and Airong Chen)
Monday Lunch and Posters (11:45 am - 1:15 pm)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 2 (1:15 pm - 3:00 pm)

Hurricanes & Tornadoes Tall Buildings Wind Loadings on Roofs Bridge Loadings and Analysis
5.1 Multi-Platform Characterization of Wind-Driven Rain in Recent Atlantic Hurricanes (Audra Kiesling and Forrest Masters) 6.1 Wind Tunnel Input for Performance-Based Design of Tall Buildings (Jason Garber, Bujar Morava and Michael Gibbons) 7.1 Wind Loads on Small Roof Mounted Air-Conditioning Units (Murray Morrison, Chuck Miccolis, Timothy A. Reinhold) 8.1 Aerodynamic Flutter Prediction for Super Long Span Suspension Bridges (Yaojun Ge, Yahui Shao)
5.2 SWIRLnet: Portable anemometer network for wind speed measurements of land-falling tropical cyclones (David Henderson, Matthew Mason and John Ginger) 6.2 A three degree of freedom flexible device for the study of the wind induced bending and torsional dynamic effects in tall buildings (Mario Oliveira, Acir Souza, Marcelo Rocha) 7.2 Flow Measurements During Peak Suctions on Flat Roofs of Low Buildings (R. Nicolas Pratt and Gregory A. Kopp) 8.2 An experimental study to characterize unsteady vortex and flow structures around a twin-box-girder bridge deck model (Wenli Chen, Shujin Lima, Hui Li, Hui Hu)
5.3 Assessment of Typhoon Fragility of Multi-Owned Residential Buildings by Using Monte Carlo Simulation (Hee Jung Ham, Ji Young Kim, Sungsu Lee and Ho Jeong Kim) 6.3 A Typology-Driven Damping Model (TD2M) to Enhance the Prediction of Tall Building Dynamic Properties Using Full-Scale Wind-Induced Response Data (Sally Williams, Audrey Bentz, Tracy Kijewski-Correa) 7.3 The Overshoot of Aerodynamic Force on Gable Roof Body under Step-function-like Gusty Wind (Kazuhiro Otsubo, Eriko Tomokiyo and Junji Maeda) 8.3 Bridge Fatigue Damage Assessment under Vehicle and Non-Stationary Hurricane Wind (Wei Zhang, C.S. Cai, Fang Pan)
5.4 Refined finite element modeling of a typical low-rise building for damage predictions under hurricane loads (Fang Pan, Chunsheng Cai and Wei Zhang) 6.4 Assessment of the Impact of Strong Winds on a High-Rise Building, in a Standalone Configuration and in an Urban Setting, using CFD Simulations and British Standards
(Arjoon Suddhoo, Vikheel Chuttur, Kavissen Kathapermall)
7.4 Wind loads on vaulted canopy roofs (Gustavo Balbastro, Victorio Sonzogni) 8.4 Effects of the Gap Length on the Unsteady Pressure Characteristics of Two-Box Girders (Cristiano Trein, Hiromichi Shirato and Masaru Matsumo)
5.5 Developing Hurricane Impact Index - Empirical Analysis of Building Permits in Response to Hurricane Landfalls (Yuepeng Cui, Daan Liang, Bradley T. Ewing)     8.5 A Direct Method for Calculation of Wind Loads on Long-Span Bridges(Stoyan Stoyanoff and Pierre-Olivier Dallaire)
Coffee Break and Posters (3:00 pm - 3:15 pm)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 3 (3:15 pm - 5:00 pm)

Hurricane Damage, Vulnerability and Risk Tall Buildings Wind Loadings on Roofing and Cladding Cable-Stayed Bridges and Cable Dynamics
9.1 Rapid Infrastructure Digitization Framework to Support High-Fidelity Hurricane Risk Assessment (John LaBarge and Tracy Kijewski-Correa) 10.1 A Low-Dimensional Model for the Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Tall Buildings (Seymour Milton John Spence, Enrica Bernardini, Daniel Wei, Sarah Bobby, Ahsan Kareem, Teng Wu) 11.1 A Numerical Analysis of Vortex-shedding Phenomenon over a Sloping Roof Structure in Tandem with a Prismatic Building (Sarat Maharana) 12.1 Dynamic assessment of long-span cable-stayed bridges subjected to multiple service and hazardous loads (Yufen Zhou and Suren Chen)
9.2 Collection and Organization of Hurricane Damage Data for Civil Infrastructure(Carol Friedland, Dorothy Reed, Mohammad Baradaranshoraka and Shasha Jiang) 10.2 Full-Scale Monitoring of the Dynamic Behavior of a 20 story RC Building (Jonas Thor Snaebjornsson and Einar Thor Ingolfsson) 11.2 Evaluating Wind-Damaged Low-Slope Roof Assemblies: A Preliminary Protocol (Thomas Smith) 12.2 Vortex-induced Vibration and Its Countermeasures observed at Long-span Cable-stayed Bridge (Hiroshi Katsuchi, Hitoshi Yamada, Kensuke Etoh, Sakae Nagai, Tadashi Sekiguchi, Yosuke Morikawa, Tsuyoshi Nakagaki and Rokusui Yui)
9.3 Towards a robust, automated hurricane damage assessment from high-resolution images
(Ahsan Kareem, Jim Thomas, Kevin Bowyer)
10.3 Automated Assessment of Tall Building Wind-Induced Response Data to Support Long-Term Monitoring Programs (Tara Weigand, Tracy Kijewski-Correa) 11.3 Storm Duration Effects on Roof-to-Wall-Connection Failures in Residential, Wood-frame, Building Roofs (Tushar Guha and Gregory Kopp) 12.3 Analytical Evaluation of the Wind-induced Response of the Carrizo Bridge (Roberto Gómez-Martínez, Adrian Pozos-Estrada, Raul Sanchez-Garcia and Rigoberto Flores-Mendoza)
9.4 Vulnerability Model for Mid/High-Rise Buildings Subjected to Hurricane Winds and Rain (Jean-Paul Pinelli, Timothy Johnson, Kurtis Gurley, Johann Weekes, Gonzalo Pita, Steven Cocke and Shahid Hamid) 10.4 Performance Based Wind Design of Tall Concrete Buildings Utilizing Structural Reliability and Nonlinear Time History Analysis (Gary Hart and Anurag Jain) 11.4 Wind Pressure Distribution on Multi-Span Saw-Tooth Roof Building (Nirmal Kumar Bhatnagar, Pramod Kumar Gupta and Ashok Kumar Ahuja) 12.4 Dynamic Properties of Stay Cables on the Bill Emerson Bridge (Harold Bosch and James Pagenkopf)
9.5 Selection of hurricane scenarios for combined wind and flood loss estimation
(Bin Pei, Weichiang Pang, Firat Testik, Nadarajah Ravichandran)
10.5 Linearized Approach for Designing Non-linear Damped Outrigger System
(Rafik Gerges)
11.5 Wind Pressure Performance Evaluation and Building Code Improvements for Energy Efficient Exterior Wall Assemblies Including Continuous Insulation – Phase 2 (Anne Cope, Jay Crandell, David Johnston, Zhuzhao Liu, Larry Stevig and Timothy Reinhold) 12.5 Aeroelastic transmission line model in yawed wind
(William E. Lin)

Tuesday

(8:30 am - 9:45 am)

Keynote: Prof. Cliff Mass, University of Washington

Coffee Break and Posters (9:45 am - 10:00 am)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 1 (10:00 am - 11:45 am)

Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Downbursts Special Structures Wind Turbines BRIDGES: Bridge Deck Analysis
13.1 Evaluation of Temporal Reliability of National Tornado Database (Jianjun Luo, Daan Liang) 14.1 Stress Range Spectra and Damage Equivalence Factors for Along Wind Responses of Arbitrary Structures (Frank H. Kemper, Markus Feldmann) 15.1 CFD analysis of the effects of surface modification of a vertical axis wind turbine blade for improved aerodynamic flow control (M. Farhad Ismail and Krishna Vijayaraghavan) 16.1 Discrete Vortex Simulations of a Generic Bridge Cross-section and Comparisons with Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry Data (Anas Abdulrahim, Halil Kaya, Oguz Uzol and Ozgur Kurc)
13.2 The Effect of Terrain Elevation on Tornado Path (R.Panneer Selvam and Nawfal Ahmed) 14.2 Characteristics of Net Force and Torques on a Rectangular Sign Measured in the Field
(Douglas Smith, Delong Zuo, Kishor Mehta)
15.2 Effect of Foundation Modeling on the Structural Response of Offshore Wind Turbines (Sungmoon Jung, Sung-Ryul Kim, Atul Patil and Le Chi Hung) 16.2 New Vortex Induced Force Model for Bridge Decks with Time Delay (Xiangying Weng and Yaojun Ge)
13.3 Observations of Tropical Cyclone Winds in Marine Exposure (Ian Giammanco, John Schroeder) 14.3 Aerodynamic Testing of Large Scale Variable Message Signs (Debbie Meyer, Arindam Chowdhury, Peter Irwin) 15.3 Prediction of Wind Turbine Extreme Response to Non-Gaussian Wind Field (Kuangmin Gong and Xinzhong Chen) 16.3 Vortex Induced Vibrations of a Bridge Deck: Dynamic Response and Surface Pressure Distribution (Marco Belloli, Fabio Fossati, Stefano Giappino and Sara Muggiasca)
13.4 Experimental study on the flow structures of tornado-like vortices
(Qiang Zhou, Shuyang Cao, Jin Wang, Tong Wang, Jinxin Cao)
14.4 Full-Scale Investigation of Wind-Induced Vibrations of a Mast-Arm Traffic Signal Structure (Michelle Riedman, Christopher Letchford, Michael O'Rourke) 15.4 Aerodynamic Damping of an Offshore Wind Turbine in Operational and Parked Conditions: A comparison between simulations and measurements (Rasoul Shirzadeh, Christof Devriendt and Patrick Guillaume) 16.4 Use of Double Slot as Countermeasure Against Coupled Flutter Instability of Bridge Deck (Robby Permata, Kazuhide Yonamine, Hiroshi Hattori and Hiromichi Shirato)
13.5 Dynamics of Internal Pressures During Tornado Events (Chris Letchford, Darryl James, Benjamin Levitz)   15.5 Vortex shedding for a pitching wind turbine blade section at high angles of attack (Craig Meskell, Alberto Pellegrino) 16.5 Buffeting Analysis of a Cable-stayed Bridge with Two Separated Decks (Le-Dong Zhu, Qi Zhou and Peng-Jie Ren)
Lunch and Posters (11:45pm - 1:00 pm)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 2 (1:00 pm - 2:45 pm)

Tornadoes and Downbursts Windborne Debris Wind Turbines Bridges: Loadings and Response
17.1 Effect of low-rise building geometry on tornado-induced loads
(Jeremy Case, Partha Sarkar, Sri Sritharan)
18.1 Windborne Debris Impact Generated Damage to Cladding of High Rise Building (Anurag Jain) 19.1 Improved 3D stall delay model for wind turbine design
(Chalothorn Thumthae, Tawit Chitsomboon)
20.1 Experimental Study on Vortex-Induced Vibrations of Parallel Bridge Decks under Interference Effects (Gustavo Núñez, Acir Loredo-Souza and Marcelo Rocha)
17.2 An Estimate of Tornado Loads on a Wood-frame Building using Database-Assisted Design Methodology (David Roueche, David Prevatt, Fred Haan and Peter Datin) 18.2 Analytic and semi-analytic solutions to the 2D compact debris flight equations (Nigel Kaye) 19.2 Understanding the Dynamic Coupling of Wind Turbine Tower and Blades (Kuangmin Gong and Xinzhong Chen) 20.2 A Nonlinear Analysis Framework for Bluff-Body Aerodynamics: From Navier-Stokes Equations To Volterra Systems (Teng Wu, Ahsan Kareem)
17.3 Turbulent Structure of Tornado Boundary Layers with Translation and Surface Roughness (Fred Haan, Mark Fleming, Partha Sarkar) 18.3 The sensitivity of modeled flight distance to the lofting to transport transition criterion in coupled ember flight models (Ali Tohidi and Nigel Kaye) 19.3 Different Computational Techniques for Wind Turbine Wake Simulation (Esmail Mahmoodi, Alois Peter Schaffarczyk, Javad Mahmoudi, Ali Jafari and Alireza Keyhani) 20.3 Revisiting Convolution Scheme in Bridge Aerodynamics: A Comparison of Indicial and Impulse Responses (Teng Wu and Ahsan Kareem)
17.4 Estimation of Wind Speed from Road Damage by a Tornado
(Minoru Noda, Kazuhiro Masai, Megumi Ninomiya, Fumiaki Nagao)
18.4 Boundary layer effects on wind-borne debris trajectory and “universal probability-of-impact curves” against tall building facades (Farid Moghim, Luca Caracoglia) 19.4 Low Voltage Ride Through Capability Improvement Of DFIG Using Feed Forward Current Regulator (Deepak Bankar and Dhananjay Talange) 20.4 Bayesian Approach for Fatigue Damage Assessment of a Bridge under Gust (Soon-Duck Kwon, Bejoy Alduse, Sungmoon Jung and Arda Vanli)
17.5 NIST Study of the May 22, 2011, Joplin, MO Tornado (Frank Lombardo, Long Phan, Erica Kuligowski and Marc Levitan) 18.5 Accounting for Exogenous Wind-borne Debris in Building Envelope Failure Assessment Models (J. Michael Grayson, Weichiang Pang and Scott Schiff)    
Coffee Break and Posters (2:45 pm - 3:00 pm)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 3 (3:00 pm - 4:45 pm)

Tornadoes and Downbursts Wind Loadings on PV Panels Wind Climate and Extremes Influence of Directionality and Topography on Wind Speeds Tall Buildings
21.1 Using Hurricane Wind Engineering to Inform Designs for Improved Performance in Tornado Events (William Coulbourne and David Prevatt) 22.1 Effects of Vortex Shedding in Arrays of Long Inclined Flat Plates and Ramifications for Ground-Mounted Photovoltaic Arrays (David Banks and Kurt Strobel) 23.1 The Extreme Winds and Ice Accretion in the Andes Mountain Range (Jose Vergara) 24.1 Influence of wind directionality on wind loads and responses (Nicholas Isyumov, Eric Ho and Peter Case) 25.1 Experimental investigation of wind-induced vibration of slender tapered cylinders (Jieying Hua, Delong Zuo)
21.2 Comparison of Microburst-Wind Loads on Structures including Scale Effects (Yan Zhang, Partha Sarkar and Hui Hu) 22.2 Wind Loads on Ground-Mounted Solar Panels: A Multi-Scale Computational and Experimental Study
(Aly Mousaad Aly, Girma Bitsuamlak, Vincent Crepel)
23.2 Toward a Coherent US-Canada Extreme Wind Climate (Thomas Mara and Franklin Lombardo) 24.2 Revisiting the Directionality Factor in ASCE 7 (Sylvia Laboy-Rodriguez, Kurtis Gurley and Forrest Masters) 25.2 Comparison of Floor Acceleration Wind-Seismic Demands for Habitability for Tall Buildings in Mexico (Hernandez Barrios and Lopez Lopez)
21.3 Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Downburst using Impinging Jet Model (Kalyan Kumar Das, Amit Kumar Ghosh and Kalyan Prasad Sinhamahapatra) 22.3 Wind-induced Loads on Rooftop and Ground Photovoltaic Panel Systems (Ted Stathopoulos, Eleni Xypnitou and Ioannis Zisis) 23.3 The Determination of an Extreme Wind Climate from Multiple Stations (Mike Gibbons, Valerie Sifton and Jon Galsworthy) 24.3 Analysis of Directionality Factor for Hurricanes incorporating Topographic Wind Effects (Gary Chock, Guangren Yu) 25.3 Filtering and Smoothing of Base Loading Spectrum using Singular Spectrum Analysis (Juntack Lim)
  22.4 Result from Wind Load on Solar Panel Experiment (Erin Dowds, Jennifer Harris and Fred Rutz) 23.4 A Long-term Spectrum of Mean Wind Speeds for Wind Climate Simulation (Hung Nguyen Sinh and Chris Letchford) 24.4 Mean Velocity Profile and Turbulence Structure of Atmospheric Boundary Layers over Waves(Shuyang Cao and Liming Sun) 25.4 Wind Load Assumptions for Permeable Cladding Elements under Consideration of their Installation Context (Frank H. Kemper and Markus Feldmann)
  22.5 Full-Scale Measurement of Wind Loadings on Solar Panels (William J. Bender, Murray J. Morrison, Arthur Morken and Dorothy A. Reed)   24.5 Effects of inflow turbulence and slope on turbulent boundary layers over two-dimensional hills (Tong Wang, Shuyang Cao, Yaojun Ge, Qiang Zhou) 25.5 Span-wise Correlations of Pressures on a Square Cylinder – Simulated using the SMoM Turbulence Model (Jens Johansson and M.P. Nielsen)

Puget Sound Cruise and Dinner

Wednesday

(8:30 am - 9:45 am)

Keynote
Prof. and Dean David Rosowsky, RPI

Coffee Break and Posters (9:45 am - 10:00 am)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 1 (10:00 am - 12:00pm)

Low-Rise Structures Codes and Standards Damage, Vulnerability and Risk Urban Wind Issues
26.1 Uncertainties in the estimation of peak pressures on low-rise buildings with Gumbel fit approach (Eri Gavanski, Kurtis Gurley and Gregory Kopp) 27.1 Torsional Loads due to Vicinity Effects and its Consideration in the New Brazilian Wind Code (Acir Loredo-Souza, Mario Gustavo Oliveira and Elvis Carpeggiani) 28.1 The 2006 Hanukkah Eve Storm and Associated Civil Infrastructure Damage in the Cascadia Region of the United States and Canada
(Wolf Read, Dorothy Reed)
29.1 Making the Wind Engineer’s Role More Effective in Urban Projects: A Proposed Three-Facet Framework for Enhanced Success (Russ Derickson and Leighton Cochran)
26.2 Prediction of peak wind loads on a low-rise building (Xinlai Peng, Luping Yang, Kurtis Gurley, David Prevatt and Eri Gavanski) 27.2 Proposed Non-Hurricane Wind Speeds for ASCE 7-16 Inclusion (Franklin Lombardo, Adam Pintar, Emil Simiu, Marc Levitan, Antonio Possolo, DongHun Yeo) 28.2 Objective Forensic Investigations Utilizing Energy Based Analysis For Wind and Flood Damaged Structures With The Applied Load Force Analysis (ALFA) Model (Matt Phelps) 29.2 Validation and Application of a  Hybrid Numerical/Wind Tunnel Model for Assessing Compliance with Air Quality Standards (Ron Petersen and Anke Beyer-Lout)
26.3 Development of Vulnerability Curve of RC Low-rise Residential Buildings to Severe Wind Hazard (Jaime Hernandez Jr., Maria Clarissa Veron) 27.3 Gust durations and effective frontal areas, with application to codes and standards (John Holmes, Andrew Allsop) 28.3 CYBER-EYE: Development of Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure to Support Rapid Hurricane Risk-Assessment (Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Nathan Smith, Alexandros Taflanidis, Markus Krusche, Cheng Liu, Charles Vardeman II, Andrew Kennedy) 29.3 Improved Method for Simulating Momentum Plume Rise When Distorting Exhaust Diameter or Density (Ron Petersen, Anke Beyer-Lout)
26.4 Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Wind Vulnerability for Residential Buildings in Hawaii (Apoorv Dabral, Matthew Maddalo) 27.4 Design Wind Speed in Complex Topography
(Massimiliano Burlando, Marina Pizzo, Maria Pia Repetto, Giovanni Solari)
28.4 Modeling Hurricane-Induced Building Downtime (Gonzalo Pita and Judith Mitrani-Reiser) 29.4 Hybrid RANS/LES Simulation of Wind Flow over An Urban Area(Hiroto Kataoka and Tetsuro Tamura)
26.5 Development of an engineering based residential wind vulnerability model for European extra-tropical cyclones (Navin Peiris) 27.5 Contributions of Overall and Local Wind-induced Behaviors for Largest Wind Load Effects on Structural Members (Zhibin Ding, Yukio Tamura, Akihito Yoshida) 28.5 On the Complementary Nature of Resilient Building Design and Wind Engineering (Leighton Cochran and Russ Derickson) 29.5 Detached-Eddy Simulation of Pollutant Dispersion around an Urban Two-Building Configuration (Mohamed Lateb, Christian Masson, Ted Stathopoulos and Claude Bedard)
    28.6 Wind-Driven Rain Deposition on Building Facade: Development of Test-Based Data (Thomas Baheru, Arindam Gan Chowdhury and Jean -Paul Pinelli) 29.6 Case Study: A hybrid approach to wind and fire modeling in a naturally ventilated transit station (Alexej Goehring and Armin Wolski)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 2 (1:15 pm - 3:00 pm)

Wind Extremes and Codes: Tall Buildings Flow Simulation Studies Damage and Loss Estimation Wind Climate and Extremes
30.1 Along-wind Response of a Generic Tall Building – Comparison of Consensus Wind-tunnel Data with Codes and Standards (John Holmes) 31.1 Numerical Study of Pressure Distribution around Building Structures Subjected to Fire Enhanced Wind (Yaping He, Kenny Kwok, Robert Meroney, Jamieson Ly and Benjamin Choulet) 32.1 North American Severe Convective Storm Vulnerability (Jason Smith, Peter Datin, Rajkiran Vojjala and Matthew Nielsen) 33.1 Highest wind gusts in Uruguay: characteristics and associated meteorological events
(Valeria Durañona)
30.2 Effects of Wind-Induced Tall Building Vibrations on a Tracking Task (Kwok-Shing Wong, Chui Luen Vera Hau and Kenny Kwok) 31.2 Practical CFD Simulations of Wind Tunnel Tests (Dilip Banerjee, DongHun Yeo, Scott Hemley, Franklin Lombardo, Randall McDermott, Emil Simiu and Marc Levitan) 32.2 Weather-Related Recovery Functions for Civil Infrastructure (Dorothy Reed, Shuoqi Wang and Kailash Kapur) 33.2 Thunderstorm Response Spectrum (Giovanni Solari, Patrizia De Gaetano, Maria Pia Repetto)
30.3 CFD Analysis of a heater chimney with and without a flow straightener (Ana Scarabino and Federico Bacchi) 31.3 Fitting Method of Nonlinear Differential Equations for Aerodynamic Forces (Shiyi Liu and Yaojun Ge) 32.3 Human Perception of Strong Winds and Associated Risk (Agdas Duzgun, Greg Webster and Forrest Masters) 33.3 High-Resolution Full-Scale Measurements of Thunderstorm Outflow Winds (W. Scott Gunter, John Schroeder)
30.4 Revision of Eolic Accelerations in Buildings According to a Mexican Code (David De Leon and Hernandez Barrios) 31.4 Vehicle-induced Wind Loads on Highway Sound Barriers (Benjin Wang, Dalei Wang and Airong Chen) 32.4 Analytical Model for Low-Rise Buildings' Vulnerability Curves (Gonzalo Pita and Jean-Paul Pinelli)  
    32.5 Patterns of Psychological Responses after a Tornado: The Effect of Age and Losses (Zhen Cong, Jianjun Luo, Daan Liang and Yin Liu)  
Coffee Break and Posters (3:00 pm - 3:15 pm)

Concurrent Technical Sessions 3 (3:15 pm - 4:40 pm)

  Flow Measurement and Simulation Wind Farms  
  34.1 Recent Advancements in Full-Scale Simulation of Dynamic Wind and Pressure Effects on Full-Scale Buildings (Seraphy Shen, Forrest Masters and Henry Upjohn II) 35.1 An Investigation of Field Blockage Effects in Closely-Spaced Lateral Wind Farm Configurations (Sean McTavish, Daniel Feszty and Fred Nitzsche)  
  34.2 Flow visualization study on effect of small-scale turbulence on flow fields around sharp-edge bluff bodies (Panpipat Sangchuwong, Hitoshi Yamada and Hiroshi Katsuchi) 35.2 Using the TTUKa Mobile Doppler Radars to Measure Complex Flows in Wind Farms (Brian Hirth and John Schroeder)  
  34.3 Measurement on Flow and Dispersion of Point Source Plume crossing an Array of Semi-circular Fences (Bao-Shi Shiau and Wen-Cheng Chang) 35.3 Numerical study to determine the optimum wind farm location on the coastal cliffs of northeastern Brazil (Patricia Sartori, Leandro Souza, Luciana Pires and Thorsten Stoesser)  

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