Dear AAWE Community: There are several interesting online wind-related workshops and seminars in the near future. Roundtable on 2020 Midwest Derecho Organized by THWARTS and AAWE Thursday April 29th from 11-12:30PM Eastern Time The topic of the discussion is the 2020 Midwest Derecho with an emphasis on the vulnerability of metal grain bins. The moderator … Continued
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Simulation of Transient and Non‐synoptic Wind Events This one-day user workshop will first present the transient and non-synoptic flow simulation capabilities of the boundary layer wind tunnel at the University of Florida NSF NHERI Experimental Facility, enabled by the new Flow Field Modulator (FFM). University of Florida NSF NHERI Experimental Facility … Continued
The Research Group in Wind Engineering and Structural Dynamics of the University of Genoa, is organizing an online event in memory of our Dear Professor Giovanni Solari on April 19, 2021, at 2 pm (Italian time), (8AM EDT) 5 months after his death. The meeting is not of a scientific nature and will only include personal … Continued
The American Association for Wind Engineering is pleased to announce the following awards that will be presented at the AAWE Workshop 2021. These awards are typically given at the America’s Conference, which has been delayed until 2022. Richard Marshall Award Description The Richard Marshall Award recognizes the contributions to Wind Engineering from a distinguished AAWE … Continued
Don’t miss the final two seminars in a series announced by Chris Baker of the University of Birmingham. Purpose Because of the Covid19 pandemic, opportunities for the international wind engineering community to meet physically have been very much restricted and are likely to remain so for at least the next year. To enable the community … Continued
The 6th AAWE Workshop is May 12-14 2021, hosted online by Clemson University, and focused on providing graduate students and early career engineers with an opportunity to present their work in progress and discuss it with the wind engineering community. 6th AAWE Workshop May 7: Final day for registration April 16: Full program published May … Continued
The fifth in the series of international seminars organised by the University of Birmingham and sponsored by the IAWE, will take place on Thursday 11th February at 12.00 noon UK time. The seminar is entitled “Wind loading code developments”. The programme will be as follows. Main Speaker Svend Ole Hansen, Svend Ole Hansen ApS, Eurocode … Continued
The fourth in the series of international seminars organized by the University of Birmingham and sponsored by the IAWE, will take place on Thursday 7th January at 12.00 noon UK time. The seminar is entitled “Developments in Bridge Aerodynamics”. The programme will be as follows. Main Speaker Prof John Owen, School of Engineering, University … Continued
Dear AAWE Members, I would like to share with you the sad news about the passing of Professor Giovanni Solari, announced today by the ANIV (Italian National Association for Wind Engineering). The international wind engineering community mourns one of his pioneers. I am personally saddened by the news. Professor Solari graduated from the University of … Continued
UPDATE Colleagues, The timing of the seminar below is of course very difficult for those in Australia, New Zealand and the west coast of the USA and Canada. After some discussion with colleagues in those areas, we have agreed, as an experiment, to arrange an extra Q and A session for 10.00pm UK … Continued
