3rd American Association

for Wind Engineering Workshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

FINAL PROGRAM

 

General information: All workshop sessions will be in Hyannisport Room (Hotel, 2nd floor). Every presentation other than those in the plenary sessions is scheduled for 15 minutes (12min. for presentation, 2 min. for questions and 1 min. for transition). Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be in Cape Cod Room (Hotel, 2nd floor). Breaks will be on the 2nd-floor Lobby of the Hotel.

 

All posters must be set up in the designated area of Hyannisport on 8/13 during breakfast and will remain on display until 8/14. Dimensions of the poster boards are 48 inches (wide) by 36 inches (high); material for mounting posters will be provided in the poster area.

 

Affiliation of the main author is only shown on this page. Please refer to the electronic proceedings for the complete list of affiliations.

Notes: *Lead presenter, ID: Abstract ID, PS: Poster Session

The final program may be downloaded as a PDF file here

Sunday 8/12: Resort & Conference Ctr., Hyannis                               

5:00 - 5:30 pm   Registration desk opens (Second floor, Hotel Lobby)

5:30 - 7:30 pm   Welcome Reception

                           "Resort Barbeque" (Cabana Tent area; inclement weather: Cape Cod Room)

7:30 - 9:00 pm   AAWE Board Meeting (Barnstable 1)

 

 

Monday, August 13

 7:30 am    BREAKFAST

 8:30 am    WELCOME REMARKS

 Luca Caracoglia, Chairman - 3rd AAWE Workshop, Northeastern University

 Jerome F. Hajjar, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Civil and Envir. Engr., Northeastern University

 Partha P. Sarkar, AAWE President and Co-Chairman - 3rd AAWE Workshop, Iowa State University

 8:50 am    PLENARY SESSION A

(A1)   Wind hazard and community resiliency (ID 50)

           Kishor Mehta

           National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA

         

(A2)   Assessing climate change impact on the US east coast hurricane hazard II: Sea temperature                             and hurricane frequency (ID 02)

           Lauren Mudd, Yue Wang, Chris Letchford*, David Rosowsky

           Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

        

 9:30 am    SESSION 1 - Wind Hazard Modeling and Assessment

(1a)   Cyberbased analysis, modeling and simulation of wind load effects in VORTEX - Winds (ID 08)

          Ahsan Kareem*, Dae Kun Kwon, Yukio Tamura

          University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

        

(1b)   Data-driven models for analysis and simulation of extreme wind events (ID 12)

          Megan McCullough*, Ahsan Kareem

          University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

        

(1c)   Human perception of surface wind, rain and water current (ID 41)

          Forrest J. Masters*, Greg A. Webster, Duzgun Agdas

          University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA

        

(1d)   Progress on development of an updated United States extreme wind climatology for wind load

          design (ID 35)

          Franklin T. Lombardo

          National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

        

10:30 am    BREAK with POSTER SESSION

(PS1)  Failure vs. Flight: An experimental study of wind speeds associated with flight of residential roof                              structures (ID 20)

           Sarah Elizabeth Stenabaugh*, Gregory A. Kopp

           Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

(PS2)  Load sharing of toe-nailed, roof-to-wall connections under extreme wind loads (ID 15)

           Mohammad Abrar A. Khan*, David J. Henderson, Murray J. Morrison, Gregory A.                              Kopp

           Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

10:45 am    SESSION 2 - Fluid-structure Interaction and Wind-induced Failure

(2a)   Influence of solid area distribution on the drag of a 2-D lattice frame (ID 21)

          Thomas G. Mara

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

(2b)   Wind-induced vibration of mast arm traffic signal support structure of various configurations

          (ID 17)

          Jieying Hua*, Delong Zuo

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(2c)   Vortex induced vibrations of inclined flexible cylinders in flow (ID 18)

          Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh*, Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi

          University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

        

(2d)   Wind-tunnel testing of an inclined stay cable with a helical fillet (ID 45)

          Harold R. Bosch

          Aerodynamics Laboratory, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA, USA

        

(2e)   Determining remaining fatigue life of in-situ mast-arm traffic signal supports (ID 03)

          Michelle Riedman*, Christopher Letchford, Michael O'Rourke

          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

        

(2f)    Modeling the failure of inter-connected roof-to-wall connections in residential wood framed                             buildings under realistic wind loads (ID 06)

          Tushar Kanti Guha*, Gregory A. Kopp

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

12:15 pm    LUNCH

 1:45 pm    SESSION 3 - Tornado and Thunderstorm Outflow

(3a)   The 19 May 2012 Tornadoes (ID 47)

          Maryam Refan, Horia Hangan*

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

(3b)   Effect of tornado size on forces on thin 2D cylinder (ID 37)

          R. Panneer Selvam, Piotr Gorecki*

          University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

        

(3c)   Mitigation of tornado effects - a study of the shielding effects of hills (ID 46)

          R. Panneer Selvam, Quentin S. Ragan*

          University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

        

(3d)   Study of microburst simulation models and wind loading effects (ID 07)

          Yan Zhang*, Partha P. Sarkar, Hui Hu

          Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

        

(3e)   High-resolution full-scale observations of thunderstorm outflow winds (ID 28)

          W. Scott Gunter*, John L. Schroeder

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(3f)    Near-surface turbulence characteristics of thunderstorm outflow in Texas Tech University Ka-                            band mobile Doppler radar observations (ID 36)

          Patrick S. Skinner*, Christopher C. Weiss, W. Scott Gunter, John L. Schroeder

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

 3:15 pm    BREAK with POSTER SESSION

(PS3)  Numerical investigation of wind-induced pressure loads on low-rise residential buildings with                              complex roof shapes (ID 51)

           Agerneh K. Dagnew, Girma T. Bitsuamlak*, Edward Ledesma

           Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

         

(PS4)  Turbulent flow mechanism for inclined and yawed stay cables (ID 52)

           Michael S. Hoftyzer*, Elena Dragomirescu

           University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

         

 3:30 pm    SESSION 4 - Low-rise Buildings

(4a)   Ongoing research on the wind resistance of asphalt shingles (ID 19)

          Craig R. Dixon, Forrest J. Masters*, Kurt R. Gurley, David O. Prevatt

          University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

        

(4b)   Refined modeling of a typical low-rise building under hurricane loads using finite element models                            (ID 24)

          Fang Pan*, C.S. Cai, Wei Zhang

          Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

        

(4c)   Wind loads on roof mounted equipment on low-rise buildings (ID 27)

          Murray J. Morrison*, Chuck Miccolis, Anne Cope

          Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, Richburg, SC, USA

        

(4d)   Development of a model for predicting pressure moderation across cladding systems (ID 01)

          Randy Van Straaten*, Gregory A. Kopp

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

(4e)   A stochastic approach to assess the progression of failures leading to total collapse in wood                            frame residential structures (ID 40)

          Joseph B. Dannemiller*, Douglas A. Smith, Stephen M. Morse

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(4f)    Gutter aerodynamics and their effect on near eave roof pressure (ID 32)

          Workamaw Warsido*, Girma T. Bitsuamlak

          Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

        

(4g)   Hurricane-induced interior damage to low-rise buildings: a status report of ongoing research at                            Florida International University (ID 34)

          Thomas Baheru*, Arindam Gan Chowdhury, Jean-Paul Pinelli

          Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

        

(4h)   Large-scale measurements of the wind induced external convective heat transfer coefficient for                            building envelope (ID 39)

          Thomas Baheru, Ramtin Kargarmoakhar*, Arindam Gan Chowdhury, ChengXian Lin

          Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

        

 5:30 pm    OPEN TIME (5:30pm - 6:30pm, 12ACWE Steering Committee Meeting - Hyannisport Room)

 7:30 pm    CONFERENCE DINNER

 

 

Tuesday, August 14

7:30 am    BREAKFAST

8:30 am    PLENARY SESSION B

(B1)   Measurements of utility-scale turbine wakes using the Texas Tech University Ka-band mobile                             research radars (ID 14)

           Brian D. Hirth, John L. Schroeder*

           Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

         

(B2)   Wind tunnel input for performance based design (ID 25)

           Bhami Ilyas, Jason Garber, Jon Galsworthy*

           RWDI Inc., Guelph, Ontario, Canada

         

9:10 am    SESSION 5 - Tall Buildings

(5a)   A cohesive performance-based optimization framework for the design of tall buildings subject to                            wind loads (ID 13)

          Sarah Bobby*, Seymour M.J. Spence, Daniel Wei, Enrica Bernardini, Ahsan Kareem

          University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

        

(5b)   Synthesis of wind tunnel and climatological data in wind-induced response estimation of tall                            buildings (ID 31)

          Workamaw Warsido*, Girma T. Bitsuamlak

          Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

        

(5c)   Estimating extremes of combined Gaussian and non-Gaussian respone processes (ID 05)

          Kuangmin Gong*, Xinzhong Chen

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(5d)   Wind borne debris impact generated damage to cladding of high rise building (ID 48)

          Anurag Jain

          Weidlinger Associates, Inc., Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

        

10:10 am    Break with POSTER SESSION

(PS5)   Wind-borned debris trajectory estimation using computer generated turbulent wind field

            (ID 04)

            Farid Moghim*, Luca Caracoglia

            Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

         

(PS6)   Wind effect on photovoltaic solar systmes in single and cluster arrangements (ID 53)

            Sathya Baskaran*, Elena Dragomirescu, Paul Wilson

            University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

         

10:25 am    SESSION 6 - Renewable Energy Systems

(6a)   A wind-tunnel investigation of the wake behind a wind-turbine in a turbulent boundary-layer flow                            (ID 22)

          Steve Cochard, Daniel Lander*

          The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

        

(6b)   Lidar-enhanced pitch control for optimized wind turbine performance (ID 23)

          Rachit R. Mathur*, Jennifer Rice, Andrew Swift, Jamie Chapman

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(6c)   Wind loadings on solar panels (ID 33)

          Dorothy A. Reed

          University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

        

(6d)   Wind load on solar panel experiment (ID 49)

          Erin K. Dowds, Jennifer S. Harris*, Frederick R. Rutz

          University of Colorado‐Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

        

(6e)   Numerical and experimental study of wind effects on photovoltaic (PV) panels (ID 29)

          Chowdhury Jubayer, Ayodeji Abiola‐Ogedengbe, Kamran Siddiqui, Horia                             Hangan*

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

(6f)   Pressure equalization and analytical solution for pressures underneath the outer layer in double                            skin envelopes (ID 16)

          Jeong Hee Oh*, Gregory A. Kopp

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

(6g)   Design wind loads for photovoltaic systems mounted on sloped roofs of low-rise residential                            buildings (ID 26)

          Yumi Iida, Sarah Elizabeth Stenabaugh, Gregory A. Kopp*, Panagiota Karava

          Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

        

12:10 pm    LUNCH

 1:40 pm    SESSION 7 - Slender Bridges and Cables

(7a)   Nonlinear aerodynamic and aeroelastic analysis framework for cable-supported bridges (ID 11)

          Teng Wu*, Ahsan Kareem

          University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

        

(7b)   A numerical algorithm for predicting life-cycle maintenance costs for slender bridges under wind

          hazards (ID 10)

          Dong-Woo Seo*, Luca Caracoglia

          Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

        

(7c)   A stochastic approximation algorithm for simulating wind-induced nonlinear dynamics of cable

          networks (ID 09)

          Gian Felice Giaccu*, Bernardo Barbiellini-Amidei, Luca Caracoglia

          Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy

        

(7d)   Study on a recently-developed impact damper for reducing wind-induced cable-stay vibration

          (ID 38)

          Philipp Egger*, Luca Caracoglia, Johann Kollegger

          Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

        

 2:40 pm    BREAK

 2:50 pm    SESSION 8 - Full-scale Measurements

(8a)   Remote sensing in wind damage analysis (ID 42)

          Lin Cong*, Daan Liang, Brian Nutter

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(8b)   Characteristics of wind in an atmospherically stable boundary layer (ID 43)

          Delong Zuo, Jingting Xiao*

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

        

(8c)   An analysis of the kinematic variability within the hurricane boundary layer using the coastal WSR-

          88D radar network (ID 30)

          Richard Krupar III*, John L. Schroeder

          Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, US

        

 3:35 pm    CLOSING REMARKS

 3:45 pm    ADJOURN

 

 

 

 

 

    Announcements

   

     Full paper submission: CLOSED

     Call for Abstracts: CLOSED

     Registration:  CLOSED   

     Workshop Announcement   

     Registration and Deadlines   

 

 

    Key Dates

   

   May 14, 2012:

   Jul. 9, 2012:

   Jul. 16, 2012:       

   Jul. 20, 2012:       

   Jul. 20, 2012:

   Jul. 31, 2012:

 

 

Registration opens

Abstract submission due

Notification of abstract acceptance

End of hotel reservation at special rate

End of early registration

Short paper (6 to 8 pages) due

 

 

 

 

   

  General Inquiries:aawe2012@coe.neu.edu

   WORKSHOP CHAIRS

   Luca Caracoglia   617.373.5186

   (Chairman)          lucac@coe.neu.edu

   Partha P. Sarkar  515.294.0719

   (Co-Chairman)      ppsarkar@iastate.edu

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