Installing hurricane-impact windows is a critical investment in protecting your home from storms while improving its energy efficiency and boosting its value. Impact windows are specifically designed ...

With extreme weather events becoming all too common, and a growing list of PV projects that have been damaged or destroyed by strong winds, ensuring that mounting structures are able to withstand the ...

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 ...

Cooling towers play a vital role in industrial processes and power generation by dissipating waste heat into the atmosphere. Their unique hyperbolic geometries are designed not only to maximise heat ...

A group of researchers from South Africa has conducted a full-scale field measurement of the wind load effects on the mounting rail of a PV single-axis tracker. The data was collected over 109 days in ...

Load demand forecasting is essential for the management of autonomous power systems. Forecasts are required for the optimal scheduling of power units for the next 2-48 hours depending on the power ...

Vol. 42, No. 4, Special issue: The 2017 International Conference on Wind Energy Harvesting (WINERCOST) (August 2018), pp. 268-275 (8 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. Traditionally, the ...

Wind engineering pioneer Jon A. Peterka died May 21 in Fort Collins, Colo. Born on May 26, 1941, he was five days shy of his 78 th birthday. “The wind and structural engineering community has lost a ...

Fatal collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 ignited interest in the safety of public-occupancy outdoor-event structures, which in many cases are not engineered to resist ...