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Programme

 

14:00 Welcome & Introduction

 

14:15 Presentations & discussion

 

Introduction to wind engineering

The Davenport wind loading chain

 

Structural Wind Engineering

Determination of structural wind actions with the Eurocode and beyond. Wind induced vibrations and aerodynamic instabilities.

 

Wind tunnel testing techniques

Model scale testing in the wind tunnel

 

Pedestrian level wind & wind induced noise

Pedestrian microclimate assessments

 

Wind Tunnel Visit

A hands-on experience with wind tunnel testing

 

Discussions and networking

 

16:00 Close

Speaker bios

 

Svend Ole Hansen
Svend Ole Hansen is the founder of the SOH Wind Engineering companies. He has been a lecturer in wind engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, Syddansk University and on Eurocode courses in Denmark and abroad. He has been an invited speaker on many occasions, e.g. for the Scruton Lecture in 2009, at the Structural Engineers World Congress in 2007 in India and as a key note speaker at the European and African Conference on Wind Engineering , EACWE 2013. Svend Ole Hansen has written three books and a number of papers regarding different aspects of wind engineering.

 

Søren Frølund Østbirk
Søren Frølund Østbirk is a senior specialist at Svend Ole Hansen ApS and has been working with wind actions and wind tunnel testing for more than 10 years. He is passionate about wind tunnel testing techniques, structural dynamics, and statistical data analysis. Søren co-teaches the course on wind engineering at DKBI (The Danish Institute of Constructions and Concrete) and is a member of the CVU Nordic Board.

 

Mads Rune Lykke Christensen
Mads Rune Lykke Christensen Søren Frølund Østbirk is a senior specialist at Svend Ole Hansen ApS and has been working with wind actions and wind tunnel testing for more than 10 years. He is passionate about wind load analysis, computational wind engineering, and the development of athmospheric boundary layers. Mads co-teaches the course on wind engineering at DKBI (The Danish Institute of Constructions and Concrete).