FACILITIES

Facilities at the BLWTL Laboratory include:

  • Five wind tunnel test areas, including our state-of-the-art boundary layer wind tunnels BLWT 1 and BLWT 2, used to investigate the aerodynamics of buildings, bridges and other structures
  • Shaker table and Total System Test apparatus to examine structure excitation
  • Systems test facility for damping of structures
  • Water tunnel
  • Full scale monitoring equipment
  • Laser Doppler anemometry
  • Numerical modelling of flow conditions
  • Water tank test area to examine wind and wave action
  • Particle Image Velocimetry