{"id":244994,"date":"2026-10-06T22:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/wave-shaped-wall-and-roof-designs-can-protect-against-hurricane-force-winds"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:12:02","slug":"wave-shaped-wall-and-roof-designs-can-protect-against-hurricane-force-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/wave-shaped-wall-and-roof-designs-can-protect-against-hurricane-force-winds","title":{"rendered":"Wave-shaped wall and roof designs can protect against hurricane-force winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wave-shaped-wall-and-roof-designs-can-protect-against-hurricane-force-winds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida State University faculty are helping build stronger structures by examining how wave-shaped patterns on exterior walls and roofs reduce wind loads on low-rise buildings by up to 60%.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0141029626014550\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Engineering Structures<\/i><\/a>, could help architects and engineers combat hurricane-force winds through innovative building shapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanging a building\u2019s shape can significantly reduce the intensity of wind forces it has to withstand,\u201d said Pedro Fern\u00e1ndez-Cab\u00e1n, one of the co-authors of the work and an assistant professor of civil engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. \u201cThese nonconventional building shapes reduce the damage from worst-case severe weather scenarios. It\u2019s another tool for engineers and designers to protect against wind damage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University faculty are helping build stronger structures by examining how wave-shaped patterns on exterior walls and roofs reduce wind loads on low-rise buildings by up to 60%. The research, which was published in Engineering Structures, could help architects and engineers combat hurricane-force winds through innovative building shapes. \u201cChanging a building\u2019s shape can significantly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}