The Wall of Wind can blow away buildings at Category 5 hurricane strength to help engineers design safer homes – but even that isn't powerful enough
- Written by Richard Olson, Director of the Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University
The Wall of Wind can create Category 5 hurricane winds for testing life-size structures.Margi Rentis/Florida International UniversityIn an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the blink of an eye.
Yet they...