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Huy Pham

Ph.D. Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

  • Structural Engineering
  • Wind Engineering
phamanhuy@vt.edu
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Member of the Wind Engineering for Resilient Infrastructure & Society Research Laboratory.

01 / Fieldwork & engagement

Huy Pham with Dr. Monica Arul beside the Virginia Tornado & Straight-Line Wind Summit 2025 banner.
With Advisor Monica Arul at the 2025 Virginia Tornado & Straight-Line Wind Summit

October 2025 · Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Tornado & Straight-Line Wind Summit

The inaugural summit brought together more than 120 emergency managers, researchers, state agencies, nonprofits, utilities, and community leaders. I supported the event behind the scenes as part of a broader effort to turn wind-hazard knowledge into coordinated action.

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Aerial view of a manufactured-home community after the Poplar Bluff, Missouri tornado, showing widespread structural damage and debris.
Aerial view of tornado damage in a manufactured-home community near Poplar Bluff, Missouri, March 2025

April 2025 · Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Manufactured-home tornado reconnaissance

Following an EF3 tornado, our team documented structural damage, anchoring systems, and soil conditions using LiDAR and forensic methods. The observations connect community-scale damage with the physical load path from the home to its foundation.

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02 / Selected research

Publications & preprints

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012026

SSRN preprint

Performance Assessment of Manufactured Homes Subjected to Tornadoes and Downbursts

Huy Pham and Monica Arul

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022025

Peer-reviewed article

Identification of Features Influencing Glass Façade Damage in Mid- to High-Rise Buildings During Extreme Wind Events

Huy Pham, Axel Soto, and Monica Arul

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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032024

Peer-reviewed article

Automated Extraction and Summarization of Wind Disaster Data Using Deep Learning Models, with Extended Applications to Seismic Events

Huy Pham and Monica Arul

Frontiers in Built Environment

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03 / Contact

phamanhuy@vt.edu
Patton Hall 309E750 Drillfield Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24061
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