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Invited lecture series: Advanced Experimental Techniques in Structural Engineering (2020376E)
Instructor
| Girma Bitsuamlak, PhD, PEng Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Director, WindEEE Research Institute University of Western Ontario | |
Host faculty
Drs. Wensheng Lu, Kaoshan Dai, and Jiangtao Yu
Institute of Structural Engineering & Disaster Reduction, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University
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
(1) High frequency pressure integration testing (HFPI)
(2) High frequency force balance testing (HFFB)
(3) Aeroelastic testing or flexible structures
(4) Case studies
Ch 5. Emerging large-scale wind testing methodologies
Ch 6. Mini Projects
Schedule
| Date | Lecture/Lab | Location |
| June 3: 13:30-17:00 | Public seminar (afternoon) + Discussion (afternoon) | Civil Eng. B504 |
| June 5: 13:30-20:10 | Lecture (afternoon) + Discussion (evening) | Experimental Center |
| June 6: 13:30-20:10 | Lecture (afternoon) + Discussion (evening) | Experimental Center |
| June 7: 10:00-11:40 | Lab visit (morning) | Wind Tunnel Lab |
| June 8: 13:30-20:10 | Lecture (afternoon) + Discussion (evening) | Experimental Center |
| June 9: 13:30-20:10 | Lecture (afternoon) + Discussion (evening) | Experimental Center |
| June 14: 10:00-11:40 | Lecture (morning) | Experimental Center |
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.