Australasian Wind Engineering Society 
Workshop Program

21st Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop

2-3 Feb, 2023

Title Authors

Effects of Turbulence and Building Geometry on Cladding Design Pressures

Gregory A. Kopp

Codifying Thunderstorms in Australia: What can be learnt from Brazil.

Matthew B Vallis

Strong wind characteristics over the open ocean

John Holmes

The case for a new AS/NZS standard test for porous façade screens

Greg Simmons

A Coastal Microburst Wind Damage Survey and Observations

M.J. Glanville and N.A. Moir

Wind Loads on Sunshade Elements: Horizontal Sunshades

Raymond Lau, Antonios Rofail

Characterisation of a new blockage tolerance wind tunnel

Nicholas Truong, Tony Rofail

Wind loads on attachments to buildings

John Holmes

Numerical and experimental study on the pressure development in gable roof buildings having different roof pitches under perpendicular and oblique wind directions

Fengda Xing, Kasun Wijesooriya, Damith Mohotti, Priyan Mendis

Wind Vulnerability Assessment of Light-Frame Wood Structures in the Philippines using Component-Based Reliability Model considering Progressive Damage Analysis

Jihan S. Pacer, Liezl Raissa E. Tan, Jaime Y. Hernandez Jr.

Wind Loads on Flush-Mounted Rooftop Solar Panels and Supporting Structural Elements

Korah Parackal, Alex Omelaniuk, David Henderson, John Ginger

Wind loads on curved free roofs

John Ginger, Korah Parackal, Simon Ingham, Rod Lowe1 and Christie Hildebrandt

Velocity fields behind non-uniform passive grid screens in a boundary layer wind tunnel

Yuhui Zhang, and Matthew S. Mason

Vulnerability of industrial buildings to wind and storm surge

Hao Qin, Matthew Mason, Mark G. Stewart

Estimation of Force Coefficients for Unclad Mining Structures of Similar Solidity by Various Methods

Robert Reis, Jeung-Hwan Doh, Hassan Karampour, Matthew Mason

Investigation of Shielding Factors on Multiple Plane Frames at Various Solidities

Robert Reis, Jeung-Hwan Doh, Hassan Karampour, Matthew Mason

Improving the resilience of the building envelope to wind driven rainwater ingress

Korah Parackal, Promise Arraiza, Murray Morrison and David Henderson

Assessment of Building-Generated Windshear at Airports

Ben Malin

Assessing Severe Wind Risk for an Inland Container Facility

Stuart Moore, Amir A.S. Pirooz, Tristan Meyers, Richard Turner

A survey of current knowledge regarding climate change impacts on extreme wind gusts in Aotearoa New Zealand and implications for AS/NZS1170.2:2021

Stuart Moore, Richard Turner, Amir Pirooz, Stephen Stuart

Wind Tunnel Testing of Torsional Instability in Single-Axis Solar Trackers: Summary of Methodologies and Results

Parsa Enshaei, Jubayer Chowdhury, Heather Sauder, David Banks

Wind Effects on Naturally Ventilated, Enclosed Arenas

Neil Mackenzie, Ben Malin, and Anthony Calderone

Discussion on design internal pressures in AS/NZS1170.2:2021

Geoff Boughton, David Henderson, Korah Parackal

Wellington Wind Climate: Observation Using Synthetic Wind Data

Pierre Verhaeghe

Aeroelastic Testing on Solar Trackers

Juan Zaracho, John Ginger, Korah Parackal, David Henderson

Analysis of full-scale transient wind event boundary layers at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory

Matthew S. Mason

Design of a National Full-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Community Hardening in Extreme Wind, Surge, and Wave Events (NICHE)

Arindam Gan Chowdhury, Amal Elawady, Hermann Fritz, Catherine Gorle, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Kurtis Gurley, Frank Lombardo, Pedro Lomonaco, Forrest Masters, Kristin Taylor, John van de Lindt, Paul Vasilescu, Ioannis Zisis

Experimental Investigation and Field Validation of WindInduced Dynamic Effects on Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems

Johnny Estephan, Arindam Gan Chowdhury, Peter Irwin, Dorothy Reed, Greg Lyman

Effectiveness of Trees for Wind Mitigation

A.W. Rofail, J.H. Wilson

Advanced Air Mobility and Building Design: Understanding the Impact of Shape on Wind Conditions

Finn Sutherland, Sebastian Kean, Simon Watkins, Abdulghani Mohamed

Mitigation of Residential Wind Risk in South East Queensland

M. Edwards, C. Arthur, M. Wehner, N. Allen, D. Henderson, K. Parackal, M. Dunford, M. Mason, M. Rahman, R. Hewison, H. Ryu, N. Corby, S. Butt

Adelaide Oval Lighting Upgrade – Wind Assessment

Neil Mackenzie, Parivash Shams-Abadi, Sam Daniels, Gabriel McGrane, Eugene Cullity, James Rhodes, Benjamin Bleckley