FACILITIES
National Wind Institute at TTU
Reese Technology Center at TTU for field measurements and laboratory studies
200-m tower
200-m tower for meteorological measurements
Ka-band mobile radar
Ka-band mobile radar on trucks
Mobile StickNet
Mobile StickNet for spatial field measurements
VorTECH Facility
The VorTECH Tornado Simulator
Wind Tunnel
The boundary layer wind tunnel
West Texas Mesonet
The West Texas Mesonet
Debris Impact Facility (DIF)
Debris Impact Facility (DIF)
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
Wall of Wind
The 12 fans of the Wall of Wind
Wall of Wind
The building, operations and control center
Test Model
Model under test
Robotic Arm
The robotic arm for traverse wind measurement
Test model in WOW
A model for testing in the Wall of Wind
Test model of a high-set building
Testing a high-set building model in the WOW
Test model
Test model set up on the turn table in the WOW
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