Inexpensive roof vent could prevent billions of dollars in wind damage

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(top) Engineering science and mechanics doctoral student Yihong Yang installs the V2T prototype roof vent in the Virginia Tech stability wind tunnel. Photo courtesy of Michael Miller Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties. (bottom) One of the building ...
(top) Engineering science and mechanics doctoral student Yihong Yang installs the V2T prototype roof vent in the Virginia Tech stability wind tunnel. Photo courtesy of Michael Miller, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties. (bottom) One of the buildings on which the V2T roof system is in use is KnowledgeWorks in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. Photo courtesy of Pat Johnson, Acrylife.

Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to havoc and damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from architecture and engineering, and a graduate student have devised an inexpensive vent that can reduce roof uplift on buildings during high winds, even a hurricane.


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