Tornadoes are destructive, and not just because of high windspeed. The unique qualities of tornadic winds make them more likely to peel roofs off houses or kick debris missiles up into the air. In this clip, NIST researcher Marc Levitan explains what makes tornadic wind so disastrously different. Learn more about how Marc and his colleagues are figuring out how to design buildings to keep people safe from tornadoes and bringing those findings into building codes: https://lnkd.in/e_BC_DE6 #Infrastructure #Buildings #Standards #Materials
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NIST Research Is Setting the Standard to Help Buildings Withstand Tornadoes Tornadoes are dramatic and deadly natural disasters. Over 1,200 tornadoes touch down in the U.S. every year — causing dozens of deaths. Until recently, a common perception among structural engineers was that tornadoes were too intense to design buildings to withstand them. But thanks to decades of research at NIST, that misconception has changed. Read More: https://lnkd.in/gkpke8kU
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'The Damage Will Not Be as Severe': Iowa State's New Tornado Simulator Could Change Building Design KCRG-TV A new Iowa State project to design a tornado simulator could help test buildings under tornadic conditions. Dr. Partha Sarkar studies how buildings are destroyed during severe weather. He wants to understand where the weak points are so he can design safer, sturdier buildings that are more resistant to severe storms. The issue is the data he needs would require him to know where a tornado will strike, something scientists don't know how to predict. So, instead, he creates his own storms. https://lnkd.in/g_n25HWt
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A building structure should be designed in such a way as to be able to develop 360° strength/ductility when challenged by external actions. Almost all Codes (EC8 among the others!) stress the requirement "for each principal horizontal direction...", which is, to be honest, ridiculous, since Natural phenomena (e.g. earthquake) do not give a damn about "principal horizontal direction"! I hope, the newest version of EC8 shall be reflecting on this!
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Finally got around to this awesome read. With all the talk of seabed warfare and CUI defense, Nature and bumbling humans (causing 200 breaks/year - about one every other day) pose just as great, if not greater, threat to global connectivity, and this will only increase as the Internet's neural pathways continue to proliferate. "The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks." https://lnkd.in/ecMjWwik
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