Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures

The Engineering Laboratory's Structures Group has an established long-term collaboration with the NIST Statistical Engineering Division in the analysis of extreme wind speeds and other extreme phenomena in wind engineering.

The site was developed by Alan Heckert of the Statistical Engineering Division and Emil Simiu (retired) and DongHun Yeo of the Structures Group. Additional contributors are listed in the Acknowledgements section.

CONTENTS Extreme Wind Speeds Aerodynamic Pressure Data, gable roof low-rise buildings Database Assisted Designs DAD_ETABS, flexible high-rise building design windPRESSURE, rigid, gable-roof low-rise building design windDESIGN, rigid, gable-roof low-rise building design HR_DAD (DAD_ESWL), flexible high-rise building design N-Year Demand-To-Capacity Indexes example Wind Load Factors Special Purpose Software: Extraction of wind data from ASOS records; BLUE Extreme Value Type I Estimation; potMax; VoronoiBound; Uncertainties in roughness lengths, including supporting materials provided by Prof. F. Masters. Hurricane-borne missile speeds (sponsor: U.S. NRC) Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) Videos and Animations Publications Acknowledgements

Wind simulation animation (requires a Windows Media Player, click on the image to initiate the animation).