题目（Title）：The Integration of Wind and Structural Engineering

讲座人（Speaker）：Ashraf El Damatty教授

时间（Time）：2018-9-5（周三），上午9:30-10:30

地点（Venue）：建筑与环境学院128

ABSTRACT

The University of Western Ontario in Canada has been leading the science of Wind Engineering since the sixties of the previous century through the research conducted at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel laboratory located at this University. The research capabilities at Western has been augmented recently through the establishment of large-scale testing facilities including the Insurance Lab of Better Himes and the Wind Engineering, Energy and Environment (WindEEE) Institute. The existence of such facilities allows more integration between wind and structural engineering pushing the scope of wind testing into assessment of structural capacities and failure modes. Two extensive research projects geared to design structures that can adapt to extreme wind events are conducted using those facilities and are summarized in this paper. Those projects involve studying the behavior of transmission line structures under tornadoes and downbursts and the behavior of wood houses under hurricanes. Those two types of structures have exhibited in the past severe damages under the considered windstorms. The third project presented in this paper is geared towards achieving sustainable design of tall buildings under wind loads by relying on the structure ductility similar to the approach adopted for years in seismic design of structures.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Dr. El Damatty is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE) and the Engineering Institute of Canada, Research Director at the WindEEE Research Institute, Co-Editor of the Journal of Wind and Structure and High End Expert at Tongji University, China. He obtained a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from McMaster University in 1995 and an MBA from University College London, UK in 2016. He is the Chair of the CSCE Structures Division and member of the ASCE-74 committee responsible of drafting tornado and downburst loading on transmission line structures. He has received many awards including the prestigious 2018 professional Engineers of Ontario Engineering Medal of Research of Development.

四川大学中国西部抗震防灾研究中心

四川大学建筑与环境学院

四川大学灾后重建与管理学院

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