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个为期五年的风力工程合作研究计划(CRPWE)已经启动，主要有两个目标。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能工程研究问题上。第二个，为即将到来的美国减少自然灾害十年(USDNDR)和国际减少自然灾害十年(IDNDR)的活动贡献研究成果。CRPWE将由外部技术评估和咨询委员会(TAAC)指导，该委员会由10至12名国内和国际公认的风能工程专家组成。来自不同系和两所大学的教职员工、研究生和本科生将在两所院校之间自由交流。CRPWE将通过集中测量全尺寸建筑物和结构的流动和结构行为来解决确定风力工程中特定研究问题的几项任务，气象风洞中相同和相似配置的物理模型，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。低层建筑的风荷载、无边界层模拟、建筑屋面性能、极端风的预测和流动的数值模拟是一些跨学科研究的课题。收集的数据、进行的评估和根据研究准备的设计建议将导致一个更安全、更经济可行的建筑环境，能够更好地保护人们，能够经受住飓风、龙卷风和风暴的袭击。

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.