The Structural Wind Engineering Research Institute jointly founded by Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute (GEDI) and Wuhan University was inaugurated. GEDI Chief Engineer Peng Xueping and Wuhan University Vice-President Jiang Changzhong attended the inauguration ceremony.
The research institute is a critical collaboration between the two organizations, further to the Smart Grid Research Center.
Structural wind engineering is not only an academic research hot point, but also a critical technical problem that GEDI should solve for critical projects, particularly transmission line large cross, offshore wind farm, mega-big cooling tower, high-rise chimney, large-cross coal shed and nuclear power station.
For such structures, wind load is one of the major loads. However, the wind load distribution and wind-caused response is very complicated. The research institute will provide technical support for engineering design and preparation of related codes, and provide reliable basis for anti-wind design and wind-caused disaster assessment.
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Offshore WIND staff, June 27, 2012; Image: Wuhan University