Wind Hazard

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Wind Hazard Earthquake Engineering
LabResearch and Outreach

• Florida AM University Florida State University
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• NSF/MCEER Site Visit 2003

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Introduction

• The Wind Hazard and Earthquake Engineering Lab is
  located at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
  campus.
• WHEEL was established in 1999 as part of the
  Department of Civil and Environmental
  Engineering.
• The labs goal is to promote research in wind
  hazard and earthquake engineering.

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Introduction

• WHEEL conducts research, publishes reports and
  articles, and provides partial financial support
  for students.
• Some of the research interests include
• passive and active structural control,
• sensor/actuator placement using genetic
  algorithms,
• damage mitigation assessment after natural
  disasters,
• computational fluid dynamics for the design and
  analysis of structures exposed to high winds,
• structural health monitoring,
• mitigation of pounding.

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Student Researchers

• 4 Ph.D. students, 2 Graduate students and 4
  Undergraduate students
• Journal articles published in the Journal of
  Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
• Invited Presentations of Results at conferences
  in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Tokyo, Japan.

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MCEER Research

• An Earthquake Analysis of an Existing Structure
  in the Southeast Region of the United States
• Structural Description
• Florida Department of Education Building
• 17 story steel frame (3 bay x 10 bay)
• FEM model developed
• Passive Control
• No external inputs to function
• Tuned mass damper and Base Isolator
• Damage Approximation
• Damage functions, HAZUS

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MCEER Research Cont.
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Education

• Developed lab experiments and demonstrations
  using a small scale shaking table
• Information was published as a part of the
  University Consortium of Instructional Shaking
  Tables (UCIST)
• Structural Dynamics has been integrated into the
  Civil Engineering Mechanics course at the
  FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

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REU Programs

• Undergraduate students conduct research in the
  areas of wind and earthquake engineering.
• Program concludes with the submission of final
  reports and oral presentations.

REU Summer 1999
REU Summer 2000
REU Summer 2001
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Outreach

• Developed a short course on engineering and
  natural hazards for elementary school teachers
  and their students
• Students participate in the two week program to
  help test the course curriculum
• Students wrote papers on natural hazards, built
  buildings with LEGOS, and tested them on the
  shaking table