Instructor

Host faculty

卢文胜、戴靠山、余江滔

同济大学土木工程学院结构工程与防灾研究所

Lecture content 

Ch 1. Boundary layer theory 

Ch 2. Bluff body aerodynamics

Ch 3. Experimental evaluation of wind loads 

Ch 4. Boundary layer wind tunnel testing-

4.1. Evolution of boundary layer wind tunnel testing for civil infrastructure

4.2. Wind field measurements

4.3. Wind loading testing

4.3.1 High frequency pressure integration testing (HFPI) 

4.3.2 High frequency force balance testing (HFFB)

4.3.3 Aeroelastic testing or flexible structures

4.3.4 Case studies

Ch 5. Emerging large-scale wind testing methodologies 

Ch 6. Mini Projects

Schedule

About the instructor

With a background in building and wind engineering, Dr. Bitsuamlak’s research interest and experience include experimental and computational wind engineering, and science of buildings. He has been educated in Addis Ababa, IIT Roorkee, and Concordia Universities. Recently, Dr. Bitsuamlak has been named Canada Research Chair in wind engineering and serves as an associate director of the WindEEE Research Institute. Prior to joining Western, he has worked as an assistant professor at Florida International University in Miami and as senior Wind Engineer with RWDI Inc (a world leading wind consulting firm) in Guelph ON. While at FIU, Dr. Bitsuamlak won a prestigious NSF-CAREER award for a project on multi-scale computational wind load evaluation on buildings in 2009 and co-developed a hurricane testing facility “Wall of Wind”. While at RWDI he has executed experimental aeroelastic analysis of supper-tall buildings such as Freedom Tower in New York and Burj Khalifa in Dubai in a boundary layer wind tunnel.

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