FACILITIES AND LABORATORIES

National Wind Institute at TTU

Reese Technology Center at TTU for field measurements and laboratory studies

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