Many transmission structures are tested to failure at full-scale, leading to an improved understanding of capacity compared to most structures. Typically when extreme wind events occur, the maximum ...
Severe convective storms generate highly transient and spatially localised wind phenomena, notably downbursts and gust fronts, that impose extreme loads on built infrastructure. Unlike steady synoptic ...
Concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) presents a promising approach to harness solar energy for both electricity generation and industrial heat applications, with the added advantage of providing ...
Researchers have investigated the aerodynamic performance of a single floating PV setup of 16 panels, as well as an array that combined 15 such setups. They found that drag coefficient distributions ...
Researchers from Chongqing University and PowerChina developed a two-parallel cable-truss CSPS to improve torsional ...
The Wind Load Shear Wall Calculator is a shear wall design calculator for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It is a tool for engineers, architects, and builders, as well as students to design shear walls to ...
Wind turbines, perched on faraway hilltops, with their skinny little blades and pencil-thin towers, are bigger than they look. But 700,000 pounds apiece bigger? Wind turbine generators (WTG), as the ...