Research
Full Session without Abstracts
Necati Catbas, PhD, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE
Professor and Director, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering Department
University of Central Florida
Joseph Ales, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., S.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE
Senior Principal and Managing Director
Walter P Moore
Arindam Chowdhury, Ph.D., Iowa State University
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University
Georgios Apostolakis, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Central Florida
Sungmoon Jung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Florida State University
John Kilpatrick, PhD, PEng
Technical Director, Principal
RWDI
Forrest Masters, Ph.D.
Professor and Assistant Dean
University of Florida
Hurricanes and strong winds are the main hazards in Florida. As a result, there has been considerable activities in wind engineering practice along with wind engineering research and education. This is a 90 min session that will bring some of the leading experts with unique real life applications and experiences. FIU has the largest Wind Tunnel where full scale tests under hurricane winds have revealed new understandings. One of the 10 Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI, experimental facilities for research engineers, (WOW) Experimental Facility (EF) at Florida International University aims to explore and test innovative concepts to protect our civil infrastructure and society from earthquakes, windstorms, and coastal disasters like storm-surge and to enable researchers to better understand wind effects on civil infrastructure systems from becoming community disasters. FSU researchers explore the analysis of hurricanes on structures as well as the community to discuss two recent advances in hurricane wind effects: 1) effect of hurricane surface winds on high-rise buildings, and 2) an approach to quantify wind effects on a large area. UCF researchers have collaborated with industry for real life structural applications to mitigate wind and wave effects on off-shore structures. Advanced methods of structural control and optimization have been applied to reduce the adverse effects under extreme events. UF and University of Maryland group present a study, which proposes a cyber-physical systems (CPS) approach for structural optimization of tall buildings in a boundary layer wind tunnel (BLWT). The CPS framework couples BLWT modeling with high-level optimization strategies to physically adjust the structural properties of a tall building model to minimize user-specified objectives (e.g., cross-wind response) while satisfying strength, serviceability, and cost requirements. A 1:200 multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) aeroelastic model of a 76-story benchmark building is selected in this study to assess the proposed cyber-physical optimization framework. Experiments will be conducted at the University of Florida Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental Facility. Finally, one of the industry leaders in wind engineering, RWDI, will contribute to this session with a review of their wind engineering experience on research with examples from real life case studies. This session, although developed by the local organizing committee, is expected to draw attention from a large group of practitioners, academicians and infrastructure owners from and outside of Florida. The session presenters are:
1. Arimdam Chowdhurry, PhD, Professor, FIU, “The Role of the 12-Fan Wall of Wind to Assess and Mitigate Hurricane Impacts”
2. Georgios Apostolakis, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCF , Richard W Litton Senior Consultant RWLRPE, Inc. “Structural control and optimization of offshore structures under extreme wind events”
3. Dr. John Kilpatrick, Principal, and Dr. Duncan Phillips, Principal, “Wind Engineering Research, Practice and Case Studies”
4. Sungmoon Jung, PhD, Associate Professor, Florida State University , “Analysis of Hurricane Wind Effects on Buildings and Community”
5. Michael L. Whiteman, Pedro L. Fernández-Cabán, Brian M. Phillips-Professor (University of Maryland) Forrest J. Masters, Professor ), Jennifer A. Bridge, Professor, Justin R. Davis, (University of Florida) “A cyber-physical framework for structural optimization of tall buildings in a boundary layer wind tunnel”