I spent three very intensive days in Rome this week, teaching special topics in two classes for Fire Safety Engineering and Metal Structure Design.
Together with Giulio who works for StroNGER, I also had a meeting with a group of designers for the next steps in the StroNGER piezoTsensor final design. The outcome is very encouraging and by the end of January we should have a working prototype with the final design, on time for the ESA program conclusion in March 2016.
On top of that, I got to see the Trevi Fountain, one of Italy's most-popular attractions, which was reopened in Rome on Tuesday, after a 17-month restoration.
A promo video from the piezoTsensor wind tunnel testing sessions at the UNIFI-CRIACIV- Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario di Aerodinamica delle Costruzioni e Ingegneria del Vento (Inter-University Research Center for Building Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering)
After a very successful testing session
last January, yesterday, Francesco and Giulio from StroNGER tested additional configurations of
piezoTsensor at the CRIACIV wind testing facility in Florence (CRIACIV).
Testing configurations included both a
rectangular and a T-shaped section (the later exhibiting not only Vortex
Shedding but also galloping aerodynamic phenomena).
The results are very promising at this stage, in view of the final phase and conclusion of the ESA project next year.
piezoTsensor is a novel
product by StroNGER, currently under development in collaboration with ESA
(European Space Agency): an advanced sensor for the optimum energy management
in building HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition) systems.
StroNGER srl has an European
patent pending on piezoTsensor.
Francesco (left) and Giulio (right) from StroNGER with Claudio Mannini, research associate at the University of Florence
