Multipurpose Wind-Wave Experimentation
from DesignSafe Radio Hosted by Arindam Chowdhury
The goal of the proposed NICHE facility: To understand the joint destructive forces of wind and waves —at full scale — in order to design infrastructure capable of resisting damage from hurricanes, tornadoes, surge flooding, and related natural hazards. Among its capabilities, NICHE will enable: testing full-scale residential structures to failure; testing protective capabilities of natural elements such as vegetation; testing of “gray” structures structures like seawalls and breakwaters; investigations and modeling of coastal processes, including sediment transport. This future NSF-funded research laboratory is called the “National Full-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Community Hardening in Extreme Wind, Surge, and Wave Events,” or NICHE.
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Arindam Chowdhury, wind engineer and NICHE project PI, describes a variety of specific engineering problems this NSF-funded facility will enable researchers to tackle.
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