CSU/TTU Cooperative Research Program in Wind Engineering

科罗拉多州立大学和德克萨斯理工大学之间的一项为期五年的风能工程合作研究计划（CRPWE）已经启动，有两个主要目标。第一，将跨学科的努力集中在选定的与人类环境质量和安全有关的风工程研究问题上。第二，为即将到来的“美国减少自然灾害十年”和国际“减少自然灾害十年”的活动提供研究成果。CRPWE将由一个外部技术评估和咨询委员会（TAAC）指导，该委员会由10到12名国内外公认的风能工程专家组成。来自不同院系和两校的教师、研究生和本科生将在两校之间自由交流。确定风力工程中具体研究问题的几个任务将由CRPWE通过专注于全尺寸建筑物和结构的流动和结构行为的测量来解决。气象风洞相同和相似结构的物理模型，分析和数值风工程模型的验证，以及将结果外推到设计规范和工程实践中。低层建筑的风荷载、非边界层模拟、建筑屋面性能、极端风预测、流动数值模拟等都是需要跨学科研究的课题。所收集的数据、所进行的评估以及从所进行的研究中提出的设计建议将导致一个更安全、更经济可行的建筑环境，更好地保护人民。并且能够承受飓风、龙卷风和风暴的冲击。

A five-year Cooperative Research Program in Wind Engineering (CRPWE) between Colorado State University and Texas Tech University has been set in motion with two major objectives. The first, to focus an interdisciplinary effort on selected wind engineering research problems related to the quality and safety of the human environment. The second, to contribute the results of research to the activities of the upcoming United States Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (USDNDR) and to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). The CRPWE will be guided by an external Technology Assessment and Advisory Council (TAAC) consisting of ten to twelve nationally and internationally recognized experts in wind engineering. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from different Departments and from both Universities will exchange freely between the two institutions. Several tasks identifying specific research problems in wind engineering will be addressed by CRPWE by focussing on the measurement of flow and structural behavior of full-scale buildings and structures, physical models of the same and similar configurations in meteorological wind tunnels, validation of analytical and numerical wind engineering models, and extrapolation of the results to design codes and engineering practice. Wind loads on low- rise buildings, non-boundary layer simulation, building roofing performance, prediction of extreme wind, and numerical modeling of flow are some of the topics to be investigated interdisciplinarily. The data gathered, the evaluations performed and the design recommendations prepared from the research performed will lead to a safer and economically more viable building environment, better able to protect people, and capable of withstanding the onslaught of hurricanes, tornadoes, and windstorms.