FACILITIES

 TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

National Wind Institute at TTU

Reese Technology Center at TTU for field measurements and laboratory studies

 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

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

FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

WIND & HURRICANE IMPACT RESEARCH LABORATORY (WHIRL)

• • • Hurricane risk modeling (Florida Public Hurricane and Flood Loss Models)
    • Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) System for field monitoring of hurricane pressures on buildings
    • Portable Zephir300 Lidar system from Campbell Scientific for near-surface wind profile characterization
    • Coastal Processes Research Group, including a coastal wave/weather/tide station at Sebastian Inlet, FL
    • Indian River Lagoon Research Institute,including:
      • Indian River Lagoon set-up/surge forecast product
      • Three wave capable Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler in the Banana River
• • • Online circulation and wave modeling system and ensemble surge and wave modeling system for the Florida east coast
    • Hurricane post-disaster reconnaissance missions