FACILITIES AND LABORATORIES
National Wind Institute at TTU
Reese Technology Center at TTU for field measurements and laboratory studies
- 200-m tower for meteorological measurements
- Ka-band mobile radars on trucks
- Mobile StickNet for spatial field measurements
- Tornado simulator (VorTECH)
- Boundary layer wind tunnel
- West Texas Mesonet
- Debris Impact Facility (DIF)
International Hurricane Research Center at FIU
NSF NHERI Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility (EF) for full- and large-scale testing
- Up to Category 5 Hurricane Wind simulations
- Multi-Scale Testing (full-, large-, small-scale)
- Destructive Testing (to predict progressive failures in buildings and infrastructure elements)
- Wind-Driven Rain simulations (to study water intrusion)
- Non-synoptic downburst wind flow facility Automated roughness system
- Automated 3-axis traverse system
- Three component particle-image velocimetry (PIV) system and other state of the art pressure and load monitoring equipment
