REMINDER: Jan 19: 2021 THWARTS/IBHS Natural Hazards Seminar Series

Tue Jan 19 08:19:38 CST 2021

Colleagues, please share with fellow wind researchers and students. Zoom
meeting link below.

<https://thwarts.cee.illinois.edu/>

*2021 THWARTS / IBHS Natural Hazards Seminar Series*

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*“Hazards Research Program Highlights”*

*Calling all prospective students!*

*January 19, 2021*

*2:00 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time*

*Featuring the premier research programs of:*

*University of Florida*

*Texas Tech University*

*Villanova University*

*Auburn University*

*Florida International University*

*Please forward to interested students and colleagues!*

Thank you for your interest in the THWARTS / IBHS Natural Hazards Seminar
series. One of the goals of this combined effort is to help match research
programs with prospective students and also to encourage undergraduate
students to pursue graduate degrees in the fields of natural hazards
science and engineering.

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*Connection Details *

(No pre-registration required)

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*Individual Program Descriptions*

*University of Florida*

*Drs. Kurt Gurley, Forrest Masters, Jennifer Bridge, Brian Phillips, David
Prevatt, Arthriya Subgranon*

The structures faculty in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
at the University of Florida welcome this opportunity to reach out to
potential graduate students and research colleagues. Each of the seven
faculty in our group is research-active in one or more aspects of natural
or human devised hazards. While extreme wind effects on individual
structures and community resilience is a major focus, our efforts extend to
high-energy impacts, seismic events, blast loading and progressive
collapse. Our activities include post-event field studies, experimental
methods, and analytical and stochastic computational modeling. Faculty
interests and past and current projects include performance-based design,
structural optimization with machine learning, reliability and risk
analysis, cyber-physical hybrid testing, decision making under uncertainty,
sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems, sensor design, structural
health monitoring, resilient design for developing countries,
barge-to-bridge-pier impacts, and modeling and testing concrete systems
under blast loads. The Powel Family Structures and Materials Laboratory
houses multiple unique experimental apparatus to simulate loads and
determine failure mechanism. This includes a very large and highly
automated Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel that is a part of the shared-use
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program under
NSF. Users from across the country conduct experimental work at this
facility. There are many opportunities to join our team as a student or a
research colleague, regardless of your specific hazard interests. We
welcome your intellectual input and strive to help you put your own stamp
on hazard research.

*Texas Tech University*

*Dr. Delong Zuo*

The National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University has its roots in a
research effort following the 1970 Lubbock Tornado. Over the years, it has
grown into an educational and research enterprise that supports convergent
research in wind engineering, atmospheric measurement and simulation, and
energy systems. Today, the Institute has more than 40 faculty affiliates
from multiple Colleges at Texas Tech University. It also hosts a
one-of-its-kind multidisciplinary Wind Science and Engineering Ph.D.
program which trains students and prepares them to answer today’s and
tomorrow’s challenging questions. The cutting-edge research pursued by the
faculty and students at NWI is supported by a diverse suite of
state-of-the-art facilities.

*Villanova University*

*Stephen M. Strader, Ph.D. *

*Assessing Severe Weather-Societal Interactions using Geospatial, Remote
Sensing, and Engineering Sciences: A Collaborative Approach*

The purpose of this program or presentation is to highlight graduate
student opportunities* at Villanova University in the Department of
Geography and the Environment. Specifically, I am seeking undergraduate
students interested in studying geography, environmental sciences, and
hazard-societal interactions at the graduate level. As an example of the
type of research my graduate student may conduct, my THWARTS presentation
will discuss my collaborative research project on the 2019 Beauregard, AL
EF4 tornado. This research illustrates and describes how Southeast U.S.
tornado disasters commonly unfold from spatiotemporal and structural
engineering stand points. Findings indicated that although the
meteorological forecasts leading up to the tornado event were accurate and
timely, 23 individuals–19 in manufactured homes–still perished. All
fatalities are primarily a result of the lack of positive ground anchoring
on homes where individuals were killed. Altogether, the Beauregard-Smith
Station, AL tornado event resulted in a housing fatality rate seven times
greater than the 2011 Joplin, MO EF5 tornado at least in part due to a
disproportionately larger number of manufactured homes exposed to violent
tornado winds. My talk will illustrate how collaborative research involving
physical scientists (meteorologists and engineers) and social scientists
can provide critical insight into not only fatalities, but also
survivability. Similar to this study, I am looking for students who are
interested in the following research areas:

-                      Tornado risk and vulnerability assessment techniques
using spatiotemporal methods

-                      Post-event hazard impact analyses using
multispectral unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

-                      Climate change and future wildland fire disasters

-                      Economic disasters using a spatially explicit Monte
Carlo hail impact model and post-event hail event survey data

-                      Analyses of simultaneous tornado and flash flood
(TORFF) warnings as they relate to radar imagery, storm mode, public
perception, and potential structural impacts.

*Funding is highly competitive, and applications must be submitted by *February
1, 2021*

*Auburn University*

*Dr. David Roueche*

The research program at Auburn University focuses on the interaction
between extreme winds and the built environment, primarily low‐rise
buildings.  Dr. Roueche’s team utilizes extensive field investigations to
get real‐world data and then integrates these data with physics‐based
modeling to advance knowledge of extreme wind and wind load characteristics
and structural response. Dr. Roueche was recently awarded an NSF CAREER
Award to focus on developing frameworks for learning from the wealth of
recent post‐windstorm reconnaissance data using hybrid physics‐based and
data science techniques. Auburn also just opened a new Advanced Structural
Engineering Laboratory with the capability of simulating extreme hazard
loads on full‐scale structures, including soil‐structure interaction. Other
active projects include full‐scale structural health monitoring of
structures on the Gulf Coast.

*Florida International University*

*Dr. Ioannis Zisis *

The Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research (LWER) at Florida
International University (FIU) is dedicated to creating a more hurricane
resistant society. The LWER converts the information and knowledge gained
through structural mitigation research into practical tools for
professionals, practitioners, and the general public. The research team
includes experts in wind, civil and structural engineering, and
meteorology. To perform hurricane mitigation research, the wind engineering
team at the International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) and College of
Engineering and Computing (CEC) at FIU has built a full-scale “Wall of Wind
(WOW) facility”. The WOW facility can test to failure full-sized structures
such as site-built or manufactured housing and small commercial
structures.. Current WOW projects, funded by federal and state agencies and
by private industry, are offering focus and leadership in the urgently
needed hurricane engineering research and education from an integrative
perspective to quantify and communicate hurricane risks and losses,
mitigate hurricane impacts on the built environment, and enhance
sustainability of infrastructure and business enterprise.

*ARCHIVED PRESENTATIONS*

https://thwarts.cee.illinois.edu/program-2/

*“A Lifetime of Damage Surveys“*

*Timothy P. Marshall, PE*

(October 27, 2020)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1voJ1LsY1fB3kWeiWam3g7N6U3D5QIHxB/view

The seminar series is sponsored by National Science Foundation Grants
2006613 (CAREER-IBHS) and 1748687 (UI).

<https://thwarts.cee.illinois.edu/>

<https://publish.illinois.edu/ftlombardo/>

Thank you,

Arn Womble

Tanya Brown-Giammanco

Frank Lombardo

(organizing committee)

<http://disastersafety.org/>

*J. Arn Womble, **PhD, PE*

*Lead Research Engineer – Wind Hazards*

*Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety*

5335 Richburg Road, Richburg, SC 29729

*DisasterSafety.org* <http://disastersafety.org/>

direct: (803) 789-4265  (voicemail-only at present time)

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