An Open Platform Framework for Simulation of Earthquake Engineering Damage

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The researches on earthquake engineering started in late 1900s. During the last 100 years of history, there has been a vast accumulation of knowledge, information and research results in earthquake engineering, which are scattered among different corners around the world. Experimental facilities have been gradually built at many locations on the globe. Over the last 20 years, there have been tremendous advances in information technology, especially in networking environment, hardware capability and open-source initiatives. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) became a major initiative in NSF to deploy a network environment that connects 15 facilities on earthquake engineering in the US. Based on the above information, this paper proposes a new open platform for simulation of earthquake engineering damage, which is called Simulation of Earthquake Engineering Damage (SEED). There are three main components in the platform, the networked hardware environment, the numerical simulation and research, and the basic information repository. This open platform will act as an operating system for earthquake engineering researches in the future, trying to connect all the facilities, data, information, knowledge and people together to this distributed networked platform. NEES initiative will be a sample model for the networked hardware environment, OPENSEES will serve as the basis for the numerical simulation component, and data warehouse tools can be expanded to serve as the basic information repository. A detailed schematic graph and architectural design are provided to explain the components within the open platform and how each component interacts with each other. Latest information techniques are applied to design framework of the open platform. Finally, the plan and current status to build the platform are introduced with detailed information on the schedule and funding status

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