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Unexpected Elements

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How to Design a Hurricane Windproof Roof

We can put whole structures in front of the wall of wind and then we want to test how well it's going to hold up if we get to category two, category three or category five force winds. Think about traffic signals, think about cell towers, think about giant construction cranes - all of these things that can get blown over by a hurricane wind. And so we use scale models of all of these specimens to then see how we can design them better as well.

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