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Building Wind Engineering Lab
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A lab that protects buildings from the strong winds of typhoons and tornadoes.
AboutAbout the lab
Architecture that understands the wind and coexists with it.
The Building Wind Engineering Lab conducts research to reduce disasters caused by strong winds and gusts from typhoons, tornadoes, and similar events.
Through observation, experiments, and numerical simulation, the lab clarifies the flow of wind around buildings, how buildings sway, and the process leading up to building failure.
The lab also researches risk management, which evaluates the impact of damage and considers effective ways to reduce disasters.
It also studies the use of wind as a resource, and proposes architecture and urban development that coexist with wind.
Key terms
- Wind tunnel experiment
- An experiment in which a model is placed in a device that generates artificial wind, to examine the flow of wind and the forces acting on a building.
- Downburst
- A gust in which a strong downdraft blowing down from a cumulonimbus cloud hits the ground and spreads out.
- Non-engineered structure
- A building that is not based on engineering design, but built according to local custom or similar practices.
ResearchResearch themes
To reduce disasters caused by strong winds and gusts, the lab tackles challenges in wind engineering, which clarifies wind flow, building sway, and the process leading to damage, and challenges in risk management, which evaluates the impact of damage and proposes effective disaster mitigation measures.
*Illustrative imageUncovering How Strong Winds Destroy Buildings
Strong typhoon winds and gusts from tornadoes and downbursts cause diverse damage, such as scattering of roof tiles and failure of structural members. Through damage surveys, wind tunnel experiments, impact experiments, and simulation, the lab clarifies the mechanisms and builds models to evaluate wind resistance.
*Illustrative imageStrong-Wind Risk in a Changing Society and Climate
Building density and height, and changes in typhoons and tornadoes due to climate change, keep altering the wind environment around buildings. The lab builds a framework that can integrate the models needed for risk assessment, and evaluates risk with future changes in wind and society in mind.
*Illustrative imageComfortable Wind Environments and Natural Energy
The lab develops wind prediction methods for creating comfortable wind environments in cities and making use of natural energy such as wind power. It also explores the optimal placement of windbreak facilities and safe, efficient ways to operate wind and solar power facilities.
*Illustrative imageHelping Housing Around the World Withstand Strong Winds
Most of the buildings damaged in wind disasters around the world are non-engineered structures, which are not built on engineering design. The lab studies housing in Southeast Asia, such as in the Philippines, and researches design methods that improve wind resistance without losing the characteristics of local architecture.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Building Wind Engineering Lab consist of faculty, postdocs, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2024
- ProfessorKazuyoshi Nishijima
- Associate ProfessorYuki Takadate
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Wind Tunnel Model of One Post Office Square, Boston, by Frank Durgin, model built by Earl Wassmouth, 1979, view 1 - MIT Museum - DSC03694” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Uncovering How Strong Winds Destroy Buildings: “The roof of this logistics building was severely damaged when Typhoon Songda hit Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan - DPLA - f7554f673b98912c95369944f569cd63” Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 / Public domain (cropped)
- Strong-Wind Risk in a Changing Society and Climate: “Aerial Panorama of Bosaso City and Its Coastal Port” Omar Abdulkadir / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Comfortable Wind Environments and Natural Energy: “Steel Winds Urban Wind Farm” Kenneth C. Zirkel / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Helping Housing Around the World Withstand Strong Winds: “Informal settlement in Windhoek4” Pemba.mpimaji / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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