In March 2025, the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) was successfully registered as a non-profit association at the Bochum District Court.
After more than six years of work, the revision of VDI Guideline 3783 Sheet 12 was officially published in November. The WIST group, with Dr Cornelia Kalender and Prof. Rüdiger Höffer, worked intensively on this with colleagues Bernd Leitl, Frank Harms, Rolf-Dieter Lieb, Wolfgang Theurer, Veith Hildebrand, Wolfgang Bächlin and Bernhard Bauhofer in the VDI/DIN Commission on Air Quality Control (KRdL) standards committee.
On 8 November, an extraordinary General Assembly of the International Association for Wind Engineering - IAWE took place in Bochum and online. We are very pleased that Dr Cornelia Kalender was officially elected Secretary General at this meeting and that Prof. Rüdiger Höffer took over the office of Treasurer.
The Parforce course is taking place again this semester. Participants get to know the virtual laboratories of several institutes at various universities and work in small groups on a project to evaluate structures under wind, fire and earthquake impact. The course will take place as a presence event at one of the universities involved in the project from 24 to 28 March 2025.
On 3 October, we once again took part in Mouse Day, which had the motto ‘ZusammenTun’ (working together), this year. We welcomed many interested children and their parents to our wind tunnel.
The Institute of Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum organised a workshop as part of the COST action ‘MODENERLANDS - Modular Energy Islands for Sustainability and Resilience’ on 2 and 3 September 2024 at the Beckmannshof at the Botanical Garden of Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
On Friday, 19.07.2024, on the initiative of Prof. Höffer, a meeting took place between the Chamber of Engineers Construction NRW, represented by Dr. Peiffer and Ms. Hendriks, and representatives of the Civil Engineering Student Council of the RUB in the meeting room of the WIST working group. A short summary of the results of the discussion can be found on the website of the Chamber of Engineers under read more.
As in previous years, employees from the WIST working group took part in this year's AOK company run to promote employee health.
Last week's VIV Symposium 2024 provided a platform for discussion and knowledge exchange on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) in slender structures and wind turbines with experts from universities, research institutes, the wind energy industry and certification bodies.
Dr Cornelia Kalender is a researcher in the Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics working group at Ruhr University Bochum.
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