Clemson University's Wind Load Test Facility was created after Hurricane Hugo so that researchers would have a place to run tests in the hopes of keeping people safer during storms.The facility houses ...

CLEMSON — In a nondescript industrial steel building not far from Clemson University’s main campus, civil engineers fire two-by-four lumber out of an air cannon and test model buildings in a 50-mph ...

Researchers at Clemson University's wind-load test facility are among the innovators striving to learn more about the impact of hurricanes on homes. Clemson's wind tunnel was among the first to be ...

The WTTC opened in 2011 and has since evolved to test longer wind turbine blades (Credit: DOE) When WTTC opened in 2011, it tested land-based wind turbine blades that typically spanned around 50 ...

CLEMSON — Clemson University students are in Florida, where they will hunt Hurricane Charley to gather research that may improve building techniques and codes to secure homes in the face of disaster.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported on Sept. 17 that it has done additional analysis of the wind "loads" that the World Trade Center (WTC) towers were originally ...

Matthew Mason receives funding from Australian Research Council and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre. Jonathan Roberts is an Associate Investigator with the Australian ...

In part two of this feature on wind resilience in the PV industry, the lack of structural codes comes into focus. Weather events, and wind above all, are the most common causes of failure for PV ...

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 ...