{"id":24,"date":"2020-12-11T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T19:42:48","slug":"facility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wind Load Test Facility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Clemson University boundary layer wind tunnel is a mid-scale boundary layer wind tunnel. The test section is 3 m wide and 2.4 m high with a 2.7 m diameter turntable. The tunnel has 20 m of fetch with adjustable surface roughness. The air flow is driven by two 1.5 m diameter fans with adjustable blade angle and rotational speed. The wind tunnel is capable of achieving sustained winds speeds of up to 16 m\/s. The fan speed, turntable, and data collection is all controlled remotely from the facilities control room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View looking upwind along the tunnel with the turntable in the foreground. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The facility has a broad range of instrumentation including <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. A 512 channel Scanivalve system for measuring pressure distributions over building surfaces<\/li>
  2. 2 Cobra probes for measuring the mean flow and turbulence characteristics of the flow in three dimensions<\/li>
  3. Irwin probes for measuring surface shear stress and pedestrian level wind speeds<\/li>
  4. load cells for measuring base force and moments of structures<\/li>
  5. A three dimensional instrument traverse<\/li>
  6. A debris cannon for impact testing <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The facility is housed in its own building that also includes office space, a control room, a workshop for model construction, a meeting room, and library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Control room<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Meeting room and library <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Debris cannon <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Built Environment Laboratory (BEL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Built Environment Laboratory (BEL) is a shared facility between the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, the School of Architecture, and the Wood Utilization + Design Institute.\u00a0 BEL includes a 6000 sf high bay area devoted to structural testing and a 6000 sf low bay area devoted to component fabrication and studio learning.\u00a0 Officially opened in 2019, BEL provides a \u201ccollision space\u201d for students and faculty who study diverse aspects of the built environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wind Load Test Facility The Clemson University boundary layer wind tunnel is a mid-scale boundary layer wind tunnel. The test section is 3 m wide and 2.4 m high with a 2.7 m diameter turntable. The tunnel has 20 m of fetch with adjustable surface roughness. The air flow is driven by two 1.5 m … Continue reading Facilities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/wind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}