Planning To Punish Structures With Rain, Hail, Wind and Fire

摘要

A hurricane is rising in the farmland of northwestern South Carolina, and it is going to stay there for the foreseeable future, ripping off roofs, driving rain through walls, shattering windows and shredding'buildings.rnThat's the purpose of a $40-million building materials and assemblies test facility nearing completion in Chester County, S.C. It is designed to attack full-scale test structures with the swirling winds and rains of hurricanes, the pounding hail of severe thunderstorms, or the wind-driven embers of wildfires.