<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Computational frameworks for the
implementation of performance-based wind engineering</b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nov. 23, 2020</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is undergoing a
period of rapid growth with multiple frameworks being proposed over the past
decade. This has created increasing interest from industry in applying PBWE
during the design process. This seminar will focus on recent advances in PBWE for
modeling the nonlinear behavior of the structural system of engineered
buildings subject to severe winds, as well as on approaches for modeling the
damage and losses to the building envelope during such events. Firstly,
computational approaches will be discussed for efficiently modeling the
nonlinear time history response of structural systems subject to dynamic wind
loads of long duration.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Presenter: <a href="https://cee.engin.umich.edu/people/seymour-mj-spence/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Seymour M.J.
Spence </a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Details and registration at the <a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/simcenter/2020-seminars/computational-frameworks-wind-engineering/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">DesignSafe
Learning Center</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_khgi2tb50" alt="simcenter-400.png" width="400" height="58"><br><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=12XbEVKyTmNxWz2zhiLdBZVYuFfNlVaKQ&export=download" width="95" height="96"><br><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>