The 6th Hong Kong Wind Engineering Society Workshop

Keynote and Plenary Sessions

Dr. Nicholas Truong

Windtech Consultants company

Speech Title: “Substructure Analysis Methodology for Wide Rigidly Connected Tall Buildings”

Brief Bio: Dr Nicholas Truong is a professional wind engineer with over 15 years of consulting, research and development experience in the field of fluid dynamics and wind engineering. Prior to joining Windtech in 2008, Dr Nicholas Truong was a research fellow and part-time lecturer at the University of New South Wales studying fluid-structure interactions and continues to supervise research students in the area of fluid mechanics from time to time. Nicholas’ particular interest and experience is in the use of wind tunnel testing to study and design the response of unusual structures under wind loading, as well as in the field of air and liquid fluid-structure interaction mechanics. He is also responsible for Windtech’s ongoing innovation, research and development program to maintain Windtech’s position as a global leader in the field of wind engineering. Nicholas has undertaken and supervised wind engineering studies including wind tunnel investigations for various high-rise buildings, large-span roof structures, stadiums, statues and masts around the world. These include numerous landmark developments. Nicholas is also a leader in the testing and analysis of wind loading and aerodynamic stability of bridges, including cable-stayed, arched, pedestrian and suspension bridge designs. This includes the initial design analysis during the concept design phase to assess aerodynamic stability. He also oversees the development and testing of static and aero-elastic bridge testing to determine the aerodynamic performance of the bridge. Wind climate analysis is a critical aspect in the accurate analysis of wind loading on any structure. Nicholas also leads the climate analysis group at Windtech, who provide detailed analyses of wind speed and directional probabilities as well as seasonal variations in the case of thermal comfort studies. His analysis includes both micro and macro climate analysis.

Dr. Neptune Yu

Arup company

Speech Title: "Projection of climate change impact on tropical cyclone hazard in Western North Pacific basin"

Brief Bio: Dr Neptune Yu is East Asia Wind engineering design leader of Arup. His expertise focuses on wind design of super tall-buildings and large roofs, wind induced vibration mitigations, airport airflow studies, typhoon modelling and risk assessment, offshore wind energy, resilience wind design, and climate impact on extreme winds. Neptune has provided wind consultancy to over 100 projects across the region, including working as wind discipline leader in a few landmark projects. His project portfolio includes around ten 400m + super tall buildings and five long roofs exceeding 500m. Neptune is the main contact in Arup (leading consultant) for drafting the 2019 HK Wind Code, the main drafter of the HK Wind Loading Handbook, a code drafting member of the Chinese Wind Loading Code for Roof Structures (JGJ/T481-2019) and the Guangdong Provincial Test and Evaluation Standard for Building Wind Environment (DBJ/T15 – 154-2019). He is the Chairman of Hong Kong Wind Engineering Society, an invited lecture of HKU and PolyU, and a Co-Principle Investigator of the 48.3M HKD Research Grant Council TRS project, INTACT: Intelligent tropical-storm-resilient system for coastal cities.

Prof. Xuhui He

Central South University

Speech Title: "Flow-Mode-Driven Exploration: Mechanisms Elucidation, Intelligent Prediction, and Flow Control of Wind-Structure Interactions"

Brief Bio: Vice President of Central South University, Director of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation for Railway Engineering Structures, and Director of the Wind Engineering Research Center of Central South University. Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and a Leading Talent in Science and Technology under the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program". He enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. He has led multiple projects including key research and development programs of the state and major scientific research instrument development projects. He is the chief editor of the first "Code for Wind-resistant Design of Railway Bridges" and founded the international academic journal "Advances in Wind Engineering" and serves as its chief editor. He has led the team to win one second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, one second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, and several first prizes of provincial and ministerial level awards. He has also participated in winning one first prize of the National Invention Award and one second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He has received the National Innovation and Excellence Award, the National Excellent Popular Science Work Award, the Tencent "Science Exploration Award", the Zhan Tianyou Achievement Award, the Mao Yisheng Railway Science and Technology Award, the Hunan Province May Day Labor Medal, and the Hunan Province Most Beautiful Science and Technology Worker, etc.

Prof. Fuyou Xu

Dalian University of Technology

Speech Title: "Wind Tunnel Testing of Wind Resistance Performance for Large-Scale Aeroelastic Model of Old Tacoma Bridge in Natural Wind Field"

Brief Bio: Professor Fuyou Xu is a National High-Level Talent, and Doctoral Supervisor at Dalian University of Technology, where he serves as Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Director of the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Bridge and Tunnel Technology. He holds key leadership roles including Vice Chair of the Committee of Wind-Induced Vibration and Control at the Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering, Associate Editor of Advances in Wind Engineering, Executive Director of the Bridge and Structural Engineering Branch of the China Highway and Transportation Society (CHTS), and Executive Director of the Green Construction and Operation & Maintenance Branch of the China Civil Engineering Society (CCES). His research accomplishments include leading 6 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and a National Key R&D Program of China project; publishing over 80 SCI-indexed papers as first/corresponding author; securing 8 U.S. patents and nearly 30 Chinese invention patents as first inventor; co-authoring 3 books/textbooks; and receiving the First Prize of Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize of CHTS Science and Technology Award as primary contributor.

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