Facilities
Facilities at the BLWTL 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
- water tank test area to examine wind and wave action
- particle Image Velocimetry
- numerical modeling of flow conditions
- fully automated experiment control and data acquisition
- fully automated 2048-channel pressure scanning system
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